Re: .xsession-errors occupying 4.7Gb
From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 01/30/05
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To: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:29:49 -0600
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 04:57 +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote:
> On Saturday 29 January 2005 17.02, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 16:21 +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote:
> > > My disk usage has seemed to grown the last year or so and I havn't
> > > been able to understand what it is that takes so much space. Today I
> > > was playing around with 'du' and couldn't get the numbers to add up.
> > > Then I saw that the file ~/.xsessions-errors had grown to a huge
> > > size, about 4.7 Gigabytes. When I finally got rid of it I freed about
> > > half the size of my root partition. :-)
> >
> > Before blindly overwriting it, did you look into it to see why
> > it is sooooooooo big?
>
> Well.. it seems that whenever I start an application on the command line I
> get a few error messages before it starts, so I just figured that these
> are also written into .xsession-errors which then grows with time. But
> now that you mentioned it I took a closer look in the file, and it looks
> like mplayer is basically "printing" all the played movie clips in it.
> I'm going to take a closer look at that.
That's odd. Where do you get mplayer from? The package from
nerim doesn't do that.
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