Freeorion does not rotate logs

[ThinkSome]

with-FreeOrionSDK-v11-356-ge978c5e27

~/.local/share/freeorion/freeorion.log seems to be overwritten on every run. This, together with only keeping last 10 autosaves is a cannon-to-the-foot for any debugging efforts.

[Geoff the Medio]

A system of rotating logs, with the last X kept, determined by an in-game option, is a good suggestion.

Might get impractical if all the AI logs are also kept, as the number of files could quickly multiply, though.

[Oberlus]

A system of rotating logs, with the last X kept, determined by an in-game option, is a good suggestion.

Might get impractical if all the AI logs are also kept, as the number of files could quickly multiply, though.

Add two new options (in Autosave tab) to specify one number for rotated client&server logs and one number for rotated AI logs. Default to 3 and 3?
While at it, change default max number of autosaves to 50?

Add to every log name some identifier, like timestamp of creation.

[ThinkSome]

Hmm, I think that if you must delete old logs, then making it time-based would be better. If someone reports an issue and does not attach a save file, they will be asked to attach one. However, there is probably no way to predict how many turns will pass until they respond.

You can reuse some of the code I wrote to add log-rotate to Springlobby :
https://framagit.org/specing/springlobb ... 93dc2d7eea
https://framagit.org/specing/springlobb ... 9bb40065bb
Deleting old log files is left as an exercise to the user.


534M /home/specing/.springlobby/logs
^ 4 months of having the client open ~8h/day and it logging pretty much everything in debug mode. I find this quite acceptable.

[Oberlus]

Deleting old log files is left as an exercise to the user.

No. I want it to be automatic.

[Geoff the Medio]

534M /home/specing/.springlobby/logs
^ 4 months of having the client open ~8h/day and it logging pretty much everything in debug mode. I find this quite acceptable.

I have a test freeorion save with 8 or so AI players and one human on turn 265. After turning effects logging to trace level, just opening the save, not even pressing turn, generates 800 MB of log files.