On Sun, Nov 1, 2020, 11:48 AM Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote: > * 2020-11-01 11:09:50+01, Anders Andersson wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote: > >> From my backups I found an ~/.xsession-errors file of size 111 > >> megabytes. Probably I deleted the file at that point and it started > >> grow again. > > > > Amateur. I found a 24 GB .xsession-errors once, on a 30 GB filesystem. > > 423 million lines. > > That is some log file. One would probably want to introduce it to the > nice /dev/null device: > > ln -sf /dev/null ~/.xsession-errors > > Graphical programs are sometimes really noisy when started from command > line. And there are various output lines related to dbus, kdeinit5 and > other fancy desktop stuff which nobody understands anymore. >
Also, verify that Debug Mode is not set. (I once did that with the Linux Kernel, years ago, and it filled up the Partition!) Kenneth Parker
