High mem usage by ispcp-vrl-traff

[raphael]

Quote:it looks like the ispcp-vrl-traff script actually rotates the traffic log after it reads it....

no, it doesn't

Quote:I don't really see why anyone would ever want a full year of transfer log files archived

When you need to do some tracing you sometimes need old logs.
You can always go ahead and modify the config files. The default ones aren't meant to work the best on all and every situation, that's the reason for their existence.

Quote:Who has space for this??

you don't have 1GB for them?...

Quote:Maybe one of the developers could chime in as to why this is weekl

so you can access current week's logs and so the server doesn't logrotate the logs every day

Quote:An alternative here could be to just `cat "" > domain.com-traf.log`, which would wipe the file's contents, but not break apache's traffic logging.... Just some thoughts.

Not really, AFAIR the file handle would need to be rewinded, and apache won't do it.
Not even a reload seems to work on some setups, that's why restart is used.