jackdbus file grows to enormous sizes

[Kayosiii]

the jackdbus log file in ~/.log very quickly grows to fill up all of my disk space growing to 100s of GBs in size in the space of a few hours.

[falkTX (falk-t-j)]

Thanks for reporting the bug,

I've check my logs, they are around 450Mb, which is already very big

Not as big as yours, but still... no good for a log

I'll talk with nedko about this

[Недко Арнаудов (nedko)]

Do you see countless repetitive patterns in the log file? Like xruns or jackdbus crashes followed by restarts? If you compress the file with gzip/bzip2, how big does it become?

[falkTX (falk-t-j)]

Compressing the file heavily reduces the size (512->3.6Mb, using just gzip)

A simple solution would be to automatically rename the log, (jackdbus.log.0 or jackdbus.log.20100818) and compress it,
leaving only the current/daily log un-compressed. The very old logs should be auto-delete.
Basically what it's called log-rotation.

This seems a serious bug, reporting to ubuntu/ubuntustudio

[falkTX (falk-t-j)]

Log Rotation is now implemented on KXStudio with compression support.

Fixed!

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Wow, uh... long-since fix-released. Marking as such for Ubuntu Studio as well!