I think this problem has affected me, bigtime. I recently tried to
hibernate running Karmic, and got this message, over and over again.
Here is an example:

Dec  1 08:02:42 compname kernel: [35031.545470] CPU0: Temperature/speed normal
Dec  1 08:02:42 compname kernel: [35031.545638] CPU0: Temperature above 
threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 236944)

These messages just kept running down the screen, and Ubuntu would not
shut down. I finally killed power manually.

Not long after I noticed that something was eating up almost all my disk
space. I investigated, and - whaddaya know - the log folder was taking
up half the space on the hard drive! Pretty soon Ubuntu reported 0 bytes
of free space. Whole machine seized up, most Ubuntu functions refused to
work due to lack of disk space. I restarted in the hope that some log
files might be compressed or deleted automatically; no such luck. I
booted into the Live CD and sudo'ed into Nautilus, going into /var/logs/
then picked the biggest log file I could find, which was syslog, and
moved it off the hard disk. I then rebooted and Ubuntu came back up
okay. syslog was of course automatically recreated. But now it has a
filesize of 1.25 MB instead of 1.0GB.

Now trying to figure out how to configure logrotate so i can stop
/var/logs from totally eating up my disk space again. Wish logrotate had
a GUI....

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/var/log fills up with "all normal" messages @ about 575/sec fill up the 
available space
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453444
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