Large tomCat logs in vCenter 4.1

[gbhorne]

This morning my C Drive completely ran out of space and after a panicked attempt to solve the problem I noticed my C Drive was completely empty. The culprit was TomCat. I found 10GB of logs nestled in C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\logs

This caused one of my 4 ESX hosts to briefly show a (not responding) error along with ALL VMs housed on that Host.

Question is why does tomcat write these seemingly useless (useless to a guy who does not use web interface at all in this 4.1 setup)

I momentarily moved half of the files to existing log file drive read through a few to see if I needed any of the information (which I didn't) then deleted the older ones.

My vCenter Server Settings are set to Information (Normal logging)

I'm just trying to get a little more insight into why these rather large logs files are written

[a_nut_in]

Could you copy the contents of your log4j.zip file from the Tomcat folder?

Ideally adding/appending the below should help but need to know what the parent file looks like

#Don't append, overwrite
log4j.appender.dest1.Append=false
#Control the maximum log file size
log4j.appender.dest1.MaxFileSize=10000KB