Many people don’t seem to worry about their logs increasing until their site falls over. Probably not too wise….
Here are some things you can do to have a bit of a tidy up:
- Delete /var/cache occassionally, it does build up rubbish in here, and refreshing from admin doesn’t completely clear it out
- Check /var/reports for errors – your customer is seeing these. Removing then looking again a few days later gives you clues about current issues
- Make sure system logging is switched off – in Admin under System->Configuration->Developer->Log Settings
- Switch on automated log cleaning using Cron – in Admin under System->Configuration->System, by default this is switched off
If you want to have a big clear out then remove your log files manually from the database via phpmyadmin. EMPTY all the tables beginning with log_ . This isn’t for the faint-hearted, touching the database is always risky so make sure you take a backup. Optionally you can optimise the tables afterwards.
You’ll be surprised about the amount of space you will recover on your disk if you have never done this. On a busy site you need to be setting the cleaning schedule to every few days.