Global ^Errors growing fast

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Edrian Golob · Dec 23, 2020

Hello guys.

Can anyone help me about Global ^Errors? Only in 1 specific namespace is it growing fastly. It grows from 2 to 3 Gb per hour when all services are active. Which commands exactly do this? In another similar namespaces, there is not that Global in the class list.

Thanks.

Product version: IRIS 2019.3

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Robert Cemper · Dec 24, 2020

Instead of fiddling into system internals, you may just map ^ERROR or better just the annoying part
to a different DB to see the impact. Then you clean up this one on a regular basis this DB,
Just Kill this branch.
Or map it to IRISTEMP. It is cleaned at every restart.

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Alexey Maslov · Dec 25, 2020

Besides mapping ^ERRORS to a non-journaled database, you may want to tune the ErrorPurge configuration parameter that resides under System > Configuration > Startup Settings in SMP. As its default (30 days) is usually too big, it can be easily reduced to 7 days.

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score 1 · Answer 1 · 2020-12-23T12:09:44-05:00

It is written by the standard ERROR logger ^%ETN.int used allover system routines.
You can see it in SMP/ application errors. And it might be wise to examine it if it is growing so fast.

score 0 · Answer 2 · 2020-12-23T14:22:20-05:00

Robert, thanks for the answer, it guided me to find the causer.

I identified in the application log that it is giving an Illegal web request error, from a SOAP class that exists in the namespace.
Probably someone is insistently calling this class externally in the wrong way, and IRIS is storing errors on every call. Is there a way for me to parameterize the namespace so that it doesn't store this error?

Thanks.