I have 2.5 GB of free space in $HOME, and a gwibber.sqlite file that is 3.5 GB in size
Every 14 minutes gwibber starts writing a gwibber.sqlite-journal file, which fills up until I'm out of space. 2 minutes later it is deleted, and 5 minutes after that it starts filling up again. I think this has gone on for hours. So that may be a separate bug from the underlying issue of the database being wastefully big to start with, but I'm just pointing out that it can end up eating up to twice that amount of disk, and running into this pathological periodic trashing of free space. I'm running 12.04 precise, with gwibber 3.4.2-0ubuntu2. What are some workarounds? How can I e.g. temporarily just disable gwibber when I'm low on space or get rid of it entirely? What are the consequences of uninstalling it? What are alternatives to gwibber? I don't even care much about the tweet notifications.... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gwibber in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/799356 Title: gwibber stores extreme number of messages in gwibber.sqlite Status in Gwibber: New Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gwibber I noticed that ~/.config/gwibber/gwibber.sqlite is > 640 MB big! Having only run gwibber for a few months and not having posted or received more than a few hundred Twitter messages I was puzzled and took a deeper look in the database. To my surprise I find that gwibber has some 340,000 messages stored in the 'messages' table, complete with message text, of which only a small fraction are from me or to me. It looks like the bulk of the messages is the result of 'search' operations. Needless to say, I find this storing of messages extremely wasteful of disk space. It could easily lead to users running out of space on their home partition. I don't know if I'm using gwibber in the wrong way, but that doesn't really matter. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: gwibber 2.32.2-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jun 19 12:15:46 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: gwibber To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/799356/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
