So i noticed logrotate process is chewing a lot of CPU on a brand new Hardware (Oracle Database Appliance) tail /var/lib/logrotate.status "/u01/app/oracle/diag/crs/zsc-oda0-0/crs/trace/oifcfg_45354.trm" 2018-11-29 "/u01/app/12.2.0.1/oracle/rdbms/audit/+ASM1_ora_89696_20190201115423042224143795.aud-20190209.gz-20190215.gz-20190217.gz" 2019-2-20 "/u01/app/12.2.0.1/oracle/rdbms/audit/+ASM1_ora_65203_20181209123013319320143795.aud-20190209.gz-20190215.gz-20190217.gz-20190220.gz-20190226.gz" 2019-3-5 "/u01/app/12.2.0.1/oracle/rdbms/audit/+ASM1_ora_77256_20190122165831610096143795.aud-20190209.gz-20190215.gz-20190217.gz-20190220.gz" 2019-2-26 "/u01/app/12.2.0.1/oracle/rdbms/audit/+ASM1_ora_66149_20180615010539814998143795.aud-20190209.gz-20190215.gz-20190217.gz-20190220.gz-20190226.gz-20190305.gz" 2019-3-13 cp/rm/backup the /var/lib/logrotate.status file logrotate -vf /etc/logrotate.conf (Manually run logrotate) Main culprit (For my case), "/u01/app/12.2.0.1/oracle/rdbms/audit". As you can see it is rotating all … Continue reading “Intricacy”of logrotate (HIGH CPU) →