Comment 72 for bug 453444

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....