Re: 1GB log files?

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 09:19 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> Just trying to figure out why my backups are so huge and I've come
> across some rather large beagle log files:
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian  526158102 2007-01-09 02:32 2007-01-08-17-46-35-BeagleExceptions
> -rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian  561959889 2007-01-09 02:32 2007-01-08-17-46-35-Beagle
>
> These are little over the top, no?

Indeed.  Any Exceptions files larger than, say, 10k indicate a serious
problem.

What are the exceptions in the file?

> My current log seems to be written to constantly with DEBUG entries, yet
> I don't believe I have beagle running with debug mode enabled.
>
> This is on Ubuntu Feisty so I'd expect that it has the latest installed,
> which FWIU includes the recent changes in distribution to disable debug
> by default.

If you're seeing debug messages, this probably isn't the case then.

Beagle right now ships with debug level on by default, and many distros
patch it down to something less verbose like Warn or Error, and I think
this is the correct approach for now.  Although for a distro still in
flux like Feisty, keeping debug logging on is probably the best thing to
do.  When it gets closer to freeze, it makes sense to bump it down, IMO.

Joe