"Past duration 0.###### too large" stops container from working

[epheterson]

This Docker container works great most of the time, but often gets stuck printing errors like below and requires I manually restart it. After restarting the container it works fine again for a while until the errors start again. I'm using a Eufy camera as the source.

Past duration 0.744987 too large

[stef1949]

also having this issue

[epheterson]

To increase uptime I wrote a one-liner if anyone wants to add to a scheduled task:

if docker logs rtsp2mjpg -n 5 | grep -q "too large" ; then echo "Issue detected, clearing logs and restarting container."; docker stop rtsp2mjpg; rm /volume1/@docker/containers/95da8b5321d6825e70d0abc994a6afb2066f8ae5146e6c5e2323a86061ce9ad7/log.db; docker start rtsp2mjpg; else echo "No issue detected."; fi

[stef1949]

How do I run this scheduled task? X

[epheterson]

You’ll want to find your log path directory and update it, as well as the container name. Try it manually via terminal first, on the host running docker not within the docker.

I run this on my Synology NAS which has a scheduled task feature in the control panel. For other systems look into cron jobs.

[stef1949]

Changed the log level