#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
         Resolution:            |    Keywords:               
        Next_action:  diagnose  |    Verified:  0            
Deployment_affected:            |   Blockedby:               
           Blocking:            |  
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Comment(by rsmith):

 Replying to [comment:2 rsmith]:
 > Replying to [comment:1 pgf]:
 >
 > Found a real time stamp at the start of the messages file when kernel
 boots.  3/17/2010 17:04:09 'date' now says 3/18/2010 18:49:15  so 7M in 25
 hours which is 78k per second.  Certainly something is up.

 heh.. I made the same mistake.  Thought I was doing the calc in megs and
 it really was in k.  So yes  on a per minute basis that 4.6k/minute.  So
 exactly what we see.

 So that explains the source of the data. Now the problem is that why do we
 crash when /var/log is full and what do we do about it?

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10075#comment:4>
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