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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mediascanner in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240848 Title: ~/.cache/upstart takes up around 70GB of space due to unity and mediascanner Status in Unity: Invalid Status in mediascanner package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I just noticed that ~/.cache/upstart/ folder on my computer is taking up 69GB of space. Upon further investigation, I found out that mediascanner.log and unity-panel-service.log take 12GB and 54GB of space respectively. I'm not entirely sure if this is related to upstart as I had removed logrotate package because of a conflict. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1240848/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
