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docs: Validator tuning improvements (bp #14478) (#14480)

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* docs: wrap lines

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* docs: Prefer `dd` to `fallocate` when creating swap file

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* docs: Add RUST_LOG explainer

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Co-authored-by: Trent Nelson <trent@solana.com>
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@ -336,7 +336,18 @@ Start the service with:
$ sudo systemctl enable --now sol
```
### Log rotation
### Logging
#### Log output tuning
The messages that a validator emits to the log can be controlled by the `RUST_LOG`
environment variable. Details can by found in the [documentation](https://docs.rs/env_logger/latest/env_logger/#enabling-logging)
for the `env_logger` Rust crate.
Note that if logging output is reduced, this may make it difficult to debug issues
encountered later. Should support be sought from the team, any changes will need
to be reverted and the issue reproduced before help can be provided.
#### Log rotation
The validator log file, as specified by `--log ~/solana-validator.log`, can get
very large over time and it's recommended that log rotation be configured.
@ -344,7 +355,7 @@ very large over time and it's recommended that log rotation be configured.
The validator will re-open its when it receives the `USR1` signal, which is the
basic primitive that enables log rotation.
### Using logrotate
#### Using logrotate
An example setup for the `logrotate`, which assumes that the validator is
running as a systemd service called `sol.service` and writes a log file at
@ -397,7 +408,11 @@ Example configuration:
(assuming your validator is running under the user "sol"). **CAREFUL: If you
incorrectly edit /etc/fstab your machine may no longer boot**
3. Create at least 250GB of swap space
- Choose a device to use in place of `SWAPDEV` for the remainder of these instructions. Ideally select a free disk partition of 250GB or greater on a fast disk. If one is not available, create a swap file with `sudo fallocate -l 250G /swapfile`, set its permissions with `sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile` and use `/swapfile` as `SWAPDEV` for the remainder of these instructions
- Choose a device to use in place of `SWAPDEV` for the remainder of these instructions.
Ideally select a free disk partition of 250GB or greater on a fast disk. If one is not
available, create a swap file with `sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1MiB count=250KiB`,
set its permissions with `sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile` and use `/swapfile` as `SWAPDEV` for
the remainder of these instructions
- Format the device for usage as swap with `sudo mkswap SWAPDEV`
4. Add the swap file to `/etc/fstab` with a new line containing `SWAPDEV swap swap defaults 0 0`
5. Enable swap with `sudo swapon -a` and mount the tmpfs with `sudo mount /mnt/solana-accounts/`