Comment 17 for bug 1240848

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Oli (oli) wrote :

This isn't limited to Unity. Just found my start-kde.log had swollen to several gigabytes because of a V4L bug that VLC had been spewing out for several minutes.

Upstart needs to be more clever about repeated messages. syslog can, for example, munch quick duplicates and say "Line repeated x times"