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Jad_Tabbara__JT's avatar
Jad_Tabbara__JT
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Jul 20, 2017

Changing the default ASM DB log size and the default number of entries

Hello,   Is it possible to change/reduce the default ASM DB log size and the default number of entries.   We are running BIG-IP 12.1.2 and I found on devcentral two answers from F5 saying that...
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Ashwin_Venkat
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Jul 21, 2017

JT,

 

While it is possible to increase the amount of requests that can be stored in the mysql db (either the number of requests or the size of the db itself), it's not something that we'd recommend as it can cause performance impact (particularly with the GUI in loading all the requests). If you see more requests being logged than the specified limit, then we'd recommend going with using remote storage.

 

Ashwin

 

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Jerry_Lees
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Jul 10, 2018

I realize this is old, but could you clarify why you would like to decrease the size? Most people end up wanting to increase thee numbers when they ask about database sizes.

 

I can't think of a reason to make it smaller other than a system is running low on disk space, honestly, that's a completely different problem too. One that an additional 1Gb isn't going to solve long term.