Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Apr 27, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: > >> I guess I will still need to run them OCCASIONALLY on my work Mac >> running 10.4.11 since I shut that down every night. > > This is another problem that was bigger in earlier versions of OS X. > In 10.1 and 10.2 people were finding their systems slowed to a crawl > after 7-10 months of use; this was because the system logs were > growing to an unmanageable size. Thus Onyx and MacJanitor were born. > > Since then OSX has modified it's log handling routines (primarily to > put a cap on file size...when a file gets to be too big, it does a > logrotate call then rather than waiting for it to get called when the > periodic script calls it), systems have come with more memory, larger > hard drives and faster processors thus ameliorating the problems > considerably. > > You still don't want the log files to grow too large, but the issue is > less pressing.
I had a problem once where something went wrong causing many long entries per second. This quickly ran the log file up to Gb size and got close to filling the HD. It is a known but rare problem. IIRC I solved it by restarting then purging the log file. It never re-occured so I didn't delve into further. It's rather disconcerting though to see your disk free space count down ... fast. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
