Comment 35 for bug 1240848

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Jelle De Loecker (skerit) wrote :

It might not technically be unity's fault, why is unity logging a program's output anyway?

Spotify causes a similar issue with the `unity7.log` file, if you have too many files open it fills the log with this:

```
09:57:53.201 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:104] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
09:57:53.201 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:104] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
09:57:53.201 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:104] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
```

Eating away gigabytes of space per minute, wasting write cycles of my SSD.

Maybe unity can skip adding identical lines, maybe it can notify the user when a program is putting out so much errors, maybe we can just disable the log? Anything but messing up our drive.