xorg-session.log was growing huge..... > 50 gb

ian.soarch.blvd.00 · 2020-05-15 05:16:47

Just a minute ago,

I found the warning of KDE says that /home is out of space.
So I checked and found that /home/myid/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log was ~47.5 gb.

I tried to find what's going on by googling.
While I didn't get the answer, I was surprised because this file was growing so fast, up to ~52 or 53 gb.
and /home partition's free space was "0%".

I was scared so deleted the xorg-session.log.
But still /home partition was 0% free space with my trash folder taking nothing.

So I rebooted and that problem seems gone. this log file takes only ~ 4 kbyte now.

Before rebooting, I'd like to see the log file,
but I got out of space, and the log file was too huge, so I gave up to scrutinize this file.

Is there anything you'd like to suggest for me, rather than rebooting?
Something I should've done in such this situation?

Now, "out of space" problem has gone,
but my background image has also gone and some of my personal shortcuts of windows tiling that I configured in KDE setting, also gone.

seth · 2020-05-15 06:20:44

The file was unlinked* by the FS, but still opened by your session. A relogin should have been sufficient.
I'd keep a look at the file and see what is spamming it, because otherwise you'll probably hit this again very soon.

*"deleted" files are still available in the /proc path of the processes that hold them open. This has nothing to do w/ the trash but allows you to delete files w/o pot. crashing a process that is currently using it and is unlike on windows where a process can lock a file and then you simply cannot delete it.

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#1 2020-05-15 05:16:47

xorg-session.log was growing huge..... > 50 gb

#2 2020-05-15 06:20:44

Re: xorg-session.log was growing huge..... > 50 gb

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