#10075 NORM Not Tri: long uptime with constant wakeups fills /var/log and crashes machine

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#10075: long uptime with constant wakeups fills /var/log and crashes machine
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 Reporter:  rsmith  |                 Owner:  cjb          
     Type:  defect  |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal  |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  distro  |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:          |           Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0       |   Deployment_affected:               
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 Mysteriously a large number of machines in my runin testbed (currently
 being used for some battery testing) started hanging or my power logging
 script exited with a weird error.

 A few of the machines were still operational and I eventually figured out
 that /var/log was 100% full.

 /var/log/messages was 18+ megs

 What happened was that these machines had been sitting there for close to
 48 hours running my power logger while charging the battery.  When the
 battery is full my script just sits there and waits for the battery status
 to change before it begins to log again.

 During this time it will continue to issue EC wakeups which are set to 60
 seconds.  So for approx the last 48 hours powerd has been suspending the
 machine and my script has been waking it up generating log traffic every
 minute which eventually filled /var/log and then we crash. :(

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10075>
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