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nubity

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Registered: 2009-11-29

Posts: 46

System logs filling up ALOT of disk space!

My syslogs are filling up my entire hdd space.

I checked top and it is constantly running at around 25% CPU.

These are the 3 offending logs being written:

everything.log
kernel.log
messages.log

I did a tail -f on all 3 files, and these are repeatedly loop, seems like a kernel issue:  -> tail -f output: http://pastebin.com/m43e12d7e

Any idea how I can remedy this?

Thanks!

PirateJonno

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 372

Re: System logs filling up ALOT of disk space!

apparently this is something to do with cx88, which appears to be a tv tuner driver. don't know why it's logging so verbosely though, looks like interrupt requests or something. anyway i guess one thing to do is make sure you have the right options for the card in /etc/modprobe.d/. I think there are some good v4l wikis out there that explain how to do this

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Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

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Re: System logs filling up ALOT of disk space!

You could fix the issue with the tuner card, or configure logrotate, to keep the log size down.

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nubity

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Registered: 2009-11-29

Posts: 46

Re: System logs filling up ALOT of disk space!

Right, I suppose its the tv card, may I know how I may fix it?