I've been in charge of a server that has been stressed beyond its tipping point for some time. I've recommended changes that are currently in the process of being implemented by other members of the team that should alleviate the core infrastructure problems of the site. But, there is an acute problem that requires a stopgap measure to buy us some time.
Apache restarts every morning at 7:30 due to the log rotation CRON running. 6:00 - 9:00 are our peak hours for normal site usage, and when combined with the CRON, the server runs out of memory.
What log rotation configuration would help? Should I move it from daily to hourly? Change the thresholds? Just change the times (I did this and was still met with an outage).