Lease file not getting cleaned out

[Dallas Clement]

Thanks for the help.  I did not realize it was more like a
log file.

----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Simon Hobson <dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk>
To: dhcp-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Lease file not getting cleaned out
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:43:27 +0100

> Dallas Clement wrote:
> 
> >I'm seeing some strange behavior with the lease file in
> DHCP >4.1.  It's not getting cleaned out when there is a
> lease >renewal.  Things accumulate over time.  I'm
> renewing the >lease every 5 minutes.  This is what it
> looks like: <snip>
> 
> Define "over time" ?
> 
> The leases file is a log file - it is append only and is
> NEVER  modified. Periodically, a fresh copy is written
> from memory and  swapped into place to replace the
> previous copy. After this process  has run (default is 1
> hour on 3.x) then the older leases will be gone.
> 
> If "over time" is shorter than the maintenance cycle, then
> what you  are seeing is correct.
>