Comment 4 for bug 453444

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Taras (tiras-dude) wrote : Re: /var/log fills all available space during upgrade and causes system failure

messages (600 some megs)

Oct 15 00:42:34 DELL-1000 kernel: [ 26.814694] CPU0: Temperature/speed normal

8238668 instances @ about 575 times a second

syslog (1.6 gigs

Oct 15 00:42:31 DELL-1000 kernel: [ 23.568556] CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 13710)
Oct 15 00:42:31 DELL-1000 kernel: [ 23.569662] CPU0: Temperature/speed normal

16478398 instances at about the same frequency

 kern.log

Showed much the same situation as in syslog, with ocasionall intermix of the following below:

Oct 15 00:42:27 DELL-1000 kernel: [ 19.676242] b43-pci-bridge 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Oct 15 00:42:27 DELL-1000 kernel: [ 19.676270] CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 11589)
Oct 15 00:42:27 DELL-1000 kernel: [ 19.676302] b43-pci-bridge 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Oct 15 00:42:27 DELL-1000 kernel: [ 19.676343] b43-pci-bridge 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Oct 15 00:42:27 DELL-1000 kernel: [ 19.680520] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:00.0
Oct 15 00:42:27 DELL-1000 kernel: [ 19.681424] CPU0: Temperature/speed normal
Oct 15 00:42:27 DELL-1000 kernel: [ 19.681880] CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 11590)
Oct 15 00:42:27 DELL-1000 kernel: [ 19.683063] CPU0: Temperature/speed normal

So I am not sure is that pc was melting or not =)

more details with actual logs (via rapidshare) can be found on the tread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1284691&page=3