Log rotation, a normal thing on Linux systems, keeps any particular log file from becoming too large, yet ensures that sufficient details on system activities are still available for proper system ...

Have you ever noticed that an IIS server seems to slowly eat disk space over time? If you’re hosting many sites, or a few high traffic sites, it might not be that slow to consume a big portion of your ...

Log rotation on Linux systems is more complicated than you might expect. Which log files are rotated, when and how often, whether or not the rotated log files are compressed, and how many instances of ...

Windows Update uses Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) to generate diagnostic logs in Windows 11/10, and save them in the .etl file format. The reason why this has been done is that it reduces disk space ...

If you usually keep a known amount of hard-drive space clear, and suddenly find your system running low on space, a problem with the way the system handles log files may be to blame. You can use a ...