[Aide] aide 0.11 is generating a VERY large database.

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-11-10, Marc Haber <mh+aide at zugschlus.de> wrote:

>> I let it finish and the file is 102MB (compared to 2.2MB with 0.10)
>> but at least I know it's finished.
>
> Sounds like you need to exclude even more ;)
>
> On my systems, I have typical (uncompressed) database sizes of like 20
> MB.


On the machine still running 0.10-11, the database is 1.7MB
compressed, with 37049 files.  The daily run takes 2 minutes.

On the machine running aide 0.11a-4, I'm now down to a 97MB
uncompressed database, with 327313 files (according to aide.log).  The
daily run takes 44 minutes.

I'm not bothered about the disk space, and I'm getting the numbers of
daily added, removed and changed files down a bit --- but do those
figures seem highly abnormal to you?

Also, is it inadvisable to exclude /tmp/ and /var/log/ from aide since
they have a lot of files that change every day anyway?