Why logrotate maxsize condition is not working?

I've specific problem with logrotate which is rotating before reaches the limit - set by maxsize

logrotate version - 3.8.6

I've a custom logrotate file

/var/web/log/access_log
{ rotate 40 maxsize 200M missingok compress
}

and logrotate is set in crontab without -f and rotate logs almost every hour despite it did not reach the maxsize listed below (logs are rotated with few MBs):

 95642 Sep 8 08:29 access_log.2020-09-08_08.gz 86705 Sep 8 09:29 access_log.2020-09-08_09.gz 70344 Sep 8 09:59 access_log.2020-09-08_10.gz 86491 Sep 8 10:59 access_log.2020-09-08_11.gz
117124 Sep 8 11:59 access_log.2020-09-08_12.gz
106386 Sep 8 12:59 access_log.2020-09-08_13.gz
113683 Sep 8 13:59 access_log.2020-09-08_14.gz
104494 Sep 8 15:29 access_log.2020-09-08_15.gz 99380 Sep 8 17:00 access_log.2020-09-08_17.gz 87250 Sep 8 19:30 access_log.2020-09-08_19.gz

Now:

8632827 Sep 9 12:56 access_log

The output:

empty log files are rotated, log files >= 209715200 are rotated earlier, old logs are removed
considering log /var/web/log/access_log log needs rotating
... Sep 9 13:00 access_log.2020-09-09_13.gz

Can sb tell me what is wrong? Why are logs rotated before size limit? Thanks

1 Answer

In the logrotate manual page there is no "maxsize" option, just "size" and "minsize".

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If you change "maxsize" to "size" I'm sure it will work!