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amixra

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Registered: 2022-01-24

Posts: 125

[Solved] journal spammed with conky logs

I wanted to check some system issue using `journalctl -xe`. But shocked there are so many logs by conky which make it difficult to read it

Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"
Sep 01 19:17:33 archlinux /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1145]: conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase "text_buffer_size"

Following is my conky config

--[[
Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
]]

conky.config = {
    alignment = 'top_right',
    background = true,
    border_width = 6,
    cpu_avg_samples = 2,
    default_color = '#657b83',
    default_outline_color = '#586e75',
    default_shade_color = '#eee8d5',
    double_buffer = true,
    draw_borders = false,
    draw_graph_borders = true,
    draw_outline = false,
    draw_shades = true,
    extra_newline = false,
    font = 'Iosevka:size=13',
    gap_x = 60,
    gap_y = 60,
    minimum_height = 8,
    minimum_width = 280,
    maximum_width = 280,
    max_text_width = 20,
    net_avg_samples = 2,
    no_buffers = true,
    out_to_console = false,
    out_to_ncurses = false,
    out_to_stderr = false,
    out_to_x = true,
    own_window = true,
    own_window_class = 'Conky',
    own_window_type = 'override',
    own_window_transparent = false,
    own_window_colour = 'fdf6e3',
    show_graph_range = false,
    show_graph_scale = false,
    stippled_borders = 0,
    update_interval = 2.0,
    uppercase = false,
    use_spacer = 'none',
    use_xft = true,
    own_window_argb_visual = true,
    color2 = '657b83',
    color3 = '586e75',
}

conky.text = [[
$color3 Info:$color2 ${scroll 24 $sysname $nodename $kernel $machine}
$hr
$color3 Uptime:$color2 $uptime
$color3 Frequency (in MHz):$color2 $freq
$color3 Processes:$color2 $processes  $color3 Running:$color2 $running_processes
$color3 Swap Memory:$color2 $swap/$swapmax
$color3 Temp:$color2 $acpitemp °C $color3 Fan:$color2 $acpifan
$color3 Battery:$color2 $battery_time
$hr
$color3 Tasks:
$color2${exec tail -n +2 ~/todo.md}
$hr
$color3 Playing:$color2 ${scroll 20 ${exec playerctl metadata title}}
$hr
$color3 Name              PID     CPU%   MEM%
$color2 ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
$color2 ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
$color2 ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
$color2 ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}

]]

Last edited by amixra (2024-09-02 14:29:29)

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Experiment at-least.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,330

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Re: [Solved] journal spammed with conky logs

And ... is there a question here?  Some error messages are hard to interpret, but this one couldn't be much more clear.  You do not specify a text_buffer_size in your config.  The error message is suggesting you should.

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amixra

Member

Registered: 2022-01-24

Posts: 125

Re: [Solved] journal spammed with conky logs

I wanted to know how to stop conky creating noise. I tried by removing each line to find out which one is responsible for it.

Yeah defining text_buffer_size helped. By deafult is 256 https://conky.cc/config_settings#text_buffer_size. For my case there was lots of variables and text it was reading so that wasn't enough.

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Experiment at-least.