beagle error logging

["D Bera" <dbera web gmail com>]

Hey folks,
  Need some suggestion here. Once in a while for some user, beagle
creates these giant log files. I am wondering how to stop that. This
is really trying to avoid worst case behaviour. The logging scenario
is much better now than a year ago so the average users dont see this
problem.

The disributions turn off debug log for beagle. Only error messages
are printed. So if someone has a 1GB of log file with debugging turned
off, it clearly means there are hundreds of error messages. Due the
plugin nature of beagled, its hard to determine where the error is
coming from. If we can determine which component the error is coming
from, then we turn off that component after certain number of errors.
In addition to it, we try not to print repeated multiline errors. But
still it is theoretically possible for some component to go kaput and
print endless stream of error messages.

I am thinking of adding a catch-worst-case safeguard. If the number of
errors is more than 100 in the last 100 minutes, then beagled shuts
down! Period, no question asked. It kind of ruthless, but it is much
better than allowing it to continue and maybe, just maybe, create a
100GB log file. I have a slight worry that this proactive decision
might be too harsh ... but I don't see any other way to stop the
problem otherwise. I will make sure there are enough hints to the user
that beagle is having trouble on his computer.

What do you think ?

Regards,
- dBera

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Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com
beagle / KDE fan
Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user