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# sk113743 - Changing the SmartEvent max database size does not take effect

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk113743 |
| Date Created | 2016-10-05 |
| Last Modified | 2016-10-19 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Management Server |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20, R82.20 |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- * Changing the SmartEvent database max size on the SmartEvent GUI ((SmartEvent \> Policy tab \> database maintenance \> �set maximum database size to��) does not take effect. The max size remains as the old value.
* The max size on GUIdbEdit under SmartEvent \> abacus_db_mgmt \> db_mgmt_properties \> max size is similar to the new size

## Cause

The actual free space in the SmartEvent server /var/log directory is lower than the free_size_threshold value.

For example, the free_size_threshold is (15) - it means that 15% of total disk space should be free but the free size under /var/log is 10%.

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