With increased traffic to a website, several outages have occurred due to a log files filling the root drive of the web servers. An administrator is considering several possible solutions to prevent f

Archiving logs moves older log data to a separate location or storage tier and can be scheduled during off-peak hours, introducing only minimal and controllable I/O overhead.

When logs are cleared on a live server, the OS must acquire file locks on log files that web server processes are actively writing to, creating I/O contention and potential blocking of logging threads. This lock contention and the repeated spike in disk activity each time logs are cleared makes it the most disruptive option to ongoing server performance compared to the alternatives.

Log redirection simply changes the target path or destination for log output with negligible configuration overhead and no ongoing performance penalty.

Drive compression adds CPU and I/O overhead to file operations, but modern operating systems optimize compression transparently, making the per-operation impact manageable on contemporary hardware.