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title: "Problem with Log event size"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/8/problem-with-log-event-size.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/8/problem-with-log-event-size.html"
published: "2005-06-08T09:32:00"
updated: "2005-06-08T09:32:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I came a across a problem with one of my clients with a win 2003 server that contains custom event logs from applications. The event logs are set to \"overwrite logs as needed\" and also set to a maximum log size of 1GB.…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Problem with Log event size

By Roy Osherove June 8, 2005

**Historical article** · Originally published June 8, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

I came a across a problem with one of my clients with a win 2003 server that contains custom event logs from applications. The event logs are set to "overwrite logs as needed" and also set to a maximum log size of 1GB.

Yet still, it never gets past 360 MB (recycles itself).

The drive has plenty of disk space and I couldn't find anything on the web regarding this problem. If anyone has come across this I'd appreciate a mention on the comments of this post or through the contact link on my blog.


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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