activity.sqlite-wal's size increments dramatically

[Federico Vera]

After a couple of weeks testing precise a "Not enough space" warning appeared, I tracked down what was causing the problem and found that ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite-wal was abour 4.3Gb, and the entire zeitgeist folder is actually arround 5.6Gb (where ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/fts.index/ weighted arround 1.3 Gb).

By now the only thing I manage is to remove the 'activity.sqlite-wal' file, but I don't really know if it's safe to remove the other files.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: zeitgeist 0.8.99~alpha3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 26 18:52:38 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111129.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: zeitgeist
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Hi,

You can delete the "fts.index" directory without problem, it'll be regenerated the next time you start Zeitgeist.

A new Zeitgeist version, 0.8.99~beta1, will be available in Ubuntu 12.04 in a day or so. Can you please try whether the problem still persists with that update?

[Federico Vera (fedevera)]

Thanks for the clarification, I'll start removing them now.

The thing is why did it grow so much? I have two precise installations and both of them have unusually large zeitgeist files, I have a cron job to remove them every other day (they usually weight ~1Gb)...

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Not sure. Zeitgeist 0.9 will land in Precise soon and it includes a couple of related fixes. Can you please check whether you can still reproduce this behavior with it?

[Federico Vera (fedevera)]

I've just disabled the cron job I had to remove the files, in a couple of days I'll be able to tell you if it's still reproducible.

[Federico Vera (fedevera)]

I'm not able to replicate this behavior now, almost a week since the last data wipe, and the whole ~/.local/share/zeitgeist folder is just ~50Mb.

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