From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlA9i-00063K-OC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:35:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4556E0933; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:35:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCEB0E0933 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:35:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (ool-43505ef2.dyn.optonline.net [67.80.94.242]) by mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0L7900GX3TMRIXL0@mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:35:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:33:34 -0400 From: dhk Subject: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <4C69D8DE.2030803@optonline.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100727 Thunderbird/3.1.1 X-Archives-Salt: 5405e7f2-5ce8-4332-b940-ff398be52603 X-Archives-Hash: f6007df60cb0fcd3bd3a6b1fc8e2f18b Last week I got a message the my /var partition was almost full. Since it was 10G and I am using lvm2 I added 5G more to it. This evening I got the same message, now I had to investigate. When I did I found that /var/log/messages is huge. # ls -lh /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 12G Aug 16 20:15 /var/log/messages It seem to be constantly written to and growing. # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 11986603021 Aug 16 20:20 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 11986687279 Aug 16 20:20 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 11986759997 Aug 16 20:21 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 11986783403 Aug 16 20:21 /var/log/messages # ls -l /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 11986830215 Aug 16 20:21 /var/log/messages When I tail it I get the following. # tail /var/log/messages Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempting to get CSW... Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: xfer 13 bytes Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Status code 0; transferred 13/13 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk status result = 0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk Status S 0x53425355 T 0x5c33 R 0 Stat 0x0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: scsi cmd done, result=0x0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: *** thread sleeping. What's going on here? Why all these usb-storage messages? I don't know exactly when this started, but I'm guessing it has to do with a recent upgrade. I also thought there's suppose to be some sort of log rotation going on to prevent this. Any ideas? Right now I'm going to "cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages" so I can boot up in the morning. Now my /var dropped to 16%. Thanks, dhk