Re: huge space usage

[drago01 <drago01 gmail com>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:44 PM, D Bera <dbera web gmail com> wrote:
>> I got a bugreport about beagle using 243GB for ~/.beagle which seems a
>> bit high ;)
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455739
>> Any ideas? (besides what I already asked there)
>
> drats! Thats with 0.3.7.
>
> I am pretty sure the user does not have the log files and it is
> probably one error being logged every second or something. For
> repeated errors we print only one line "(Repeated)" but even that
> could accumulate quickly.

OK.

> I have to think about the error reporting and log file usage. BTW,
> does Fedora use the debug-no-spew patch everyone else uses (the one
> which reduces the default log level = debug) ?

Yes http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/beagle/F-9/beagle-0.3.2-spew.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup

> At this point there is nothing that can be done. If the user had the
> log files, then "tail -n 100 ~/.beagle/current-*" and "head -n100
> ~/.beagle/current-*" would have given some information.

OK thanks, will ask him this if he still has the files.