Performance of rails app goes down due to log

I have a rails app, where the speed of the application reduces significantly as the size of the log fil开发者_运维技巧e increases. I need to deleted my log file(backup) frequently to prevent this. What is the best practice to avoid this.

Regards, Pankaj

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On a production environment, the ideal is to set logrotate rules for those logs (preferably daily).

We do it and never had performance issues due to logs.

Here's a brief article on how to use it.