How to prevent the audit facility from causing system hangs when the filesystem containing the audit logs exceeds 80% utilization?

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Issue

  • How to prevent the audit facility from causing system hangs when the filesystem containing the audit logs exceeds 80% utilization?

  • The audit facility is enabled with the default configuration. When the filesystem containing the audit logs exceeds 80% utilization, things start randomly hanging on the system.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

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