Comment 16 for bug 453444

the same problem to me - no log rotation and I getting CPU messages too (patch didn't help me)

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -a
...
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

$ df -ha
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 9.9G 9.4G 0 100% /
...

$ ls -lh /var/log/ | grep -r "M\|G"
total 6.6G
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 2.8G 2009-11-03 03:20 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 1.1G 2009-11-03 03:20 messages
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 705M 2009-11-03 03:20 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 2.1G 2009-11-02 08:07 syslog.1