we configured the presto configuration files – config.properties with the following details

Note – presto version 350

more config.properties


log.max-history=5
log.max-size=500MB
http-server.log.max-history=5
http-server.log.max-size=500MB

• log.max-history: maximum number of archive files to keep. The default value is 30.
• log.max-size: max (uncompressed) size for each file. The default value is 100 MB.

the goal is to limit the server.log log files for 5 backups , when each log will is limited until 500MB size

after setting we restart the presto services so new configuration will take affect

so we are expecting to get only 5 backup files and no more then 500MB for each server.log

but in fact the situation is different and we get the following server.log files

-rw-r--r-- 1 presto presto        0 Apr  9 00:01 server.log-2024-04-08.0.log2831029036940451.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 presto presto     4096 Apr 10 00:39 server.log-2024-04-09.0.log2919707335505291.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 presto presto     4096 Apr 10 23:50 server.log-2024-04-10.0.log3006586198057033.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 presto presto        0 Apr 13 23:39 server.log-2024-04-13.0.log3265983752411473.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 presto presto        0 Apr 17 00:39 server.log-2024-04-16.0.log3524490571587197.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 presto presto        0 Apr 22 00:22 server.log-2024-04-21.0.log3955465061105017.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 presto presto  1368064 Apr 28 08:00 server.log-2024-04-28.0.log174042999747175.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 presto presto    98988 May  1 00:43 server.log-2024-04-30.0.log.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 presto presto     1194 May  2 07:47 server.log-2024-05-01.0.log.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 presto presto     1128 May  5 09:59 server.log-2024-05-02.0.log.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 presto presto   558994 May  5 10:06 server.log

server.log are rotate with very small size and not as we configured in config.properties

actually the retention setting are not affected the server.log rotation and backup policy

so we are not sure if this behavior is a bug in presto version ? or someth8ing else