> On 2/22/20 1:56 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > On my initial 9.1 (sysv) build, I've now discovered why the system > > was all-but full : a combination of log noise from pulseaudio (which > > I new about, and logrotate was only rotating weekly. > > > > I saw that sys.log was about 3.5G so I manually ran logrotate. > > Nothing happened and I now notice that user.log is similarly huge. > > Checked the conf against the manpage, got it to > > > > After altering /etc/logrotate.conf to put a size on those two, > > instead of 'weekly', it rotated them. > > > > ken@deluxe ~ $ls -lh /var/log/ > > total 85M > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K Feb 22 18:22 auth.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.3K Feb 19 22:31 boot.log > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 15 20:57 btmp > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 16 19:20 chrony > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.3K Feb 22 18:22 cron.log > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 16 23:57 cups > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31K Feb 22 18:40 daemon.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.8K Feb 16 19:43 faillog > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 16 17:10 kern.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp 286K Feb 16 19:43 lastlog > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79K Feb 22 17:58 mail.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 16 19:05 pm-dummy.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.4K Feb 22 17:12 pm-powersave.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.5K Feb 22 17:12 pm-suspend.log > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root sys 9.2M Feb 22 18:44 sys.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34M Feb 22 18:36 sys.log.1.gz > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.4M Feb 22 18:44 user.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34M Feb 22 18:36 user.log.1.gz > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38K Feb 19 22:31 wtmp > > > > So, in about 8 minutes I'm getting over 8MB in user.log (sys.log > > gets other things apart from pulse, but looking at user.log it's all > > pulse. First 100 lines below, it seems to just be looping through > > everything. > > > > When I first saw this I managed to stop pulse (for the moment I > > haven't managed to connect any analogue output and get that working), > > but it looks as if playing video clips in firefox restarts it. > > > > Any suggestions for taming pulse, please ? > > > > ĸen > > Hmm,
I don't know if I can help but I will try. I have a sysv 9.0 system with pulseaudio 13.0. IIRC I upgraded it when upgrading firefox or thunderbird. I haven't had a problem with pulseaudio or any other application making my logfiles huge. I will test out playing audio from firefox to see what I get. You have any requests for testing? Chris -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
