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TIP: reclaim lots of disk space from jackdbus.log

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I just did some cleaning on the computer and found this file:

~/.log/jack/jackdbus.log

It was 860 MB long, with events logged since as recently as March 1st 2016.

I recommend keeping an eye on it. I don't know about you, but I don't think I have any use for jackdbus log data older than a couple of days, and I was really glad to have that much disk space back. Like finding money at the bottom of a drawer. ;-)
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Thanks for the tip. I just checked and it is "only" 27 MB here.
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Just happened again. This time, 1.6 GB!

If you had never seen this thread, check your ~/.log/jack/jackdbus.log file.
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If it is an issue perhaps a script and cron job are in order. Very useful to know when using on a Raspberry Pi with an 8GB sd card.
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falkTX wrote:If up have kxstudio-default-settings package installed this file should be automatically compressed every 10 days.
Interesting. Thank you for the info.
Is that log really useful for anything?
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I just found another disk waster: /boot/run.log. It had amounted to 1.1 GB when I found it.

Clearly, many other apps write to that log, but I found this exact line repeated many tens of thousands of times:

JackClientSocket::Read time out

Tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands. I got tired of scrolling after about a minute, then deleted it, should have run sed and wc to get the exact count.

To whomever this may concern.
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