GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 470252
Beagle filling up my home partition
Last modified: 2007-08-31 18:06:15 UTC
This afternoon, I was informed by a notification bubble that my home partition has 100% usage. I used baobab to see where my space went (I cleaned up just a few days ago so there had to be a lot of free space). I found the problem being beagle: the .beagle/Log/ directory had over 10.9 gigabytes of data!
Created attachment 94323 [details] Directory ls -lisa in .beagle/Log
Sorry, just noted this is already known *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 453543 ***
Can you attach the first 1000 and last 1000 lines of the largest log file (or two) in that directory? The symptom is the same (huge log file) but the cause isn't necessarily. Also, what distribution is this on? What version of Beagle? etc.
Sadly I also had to remove the directory... but I will keep an eye on this now and report back if I have something interesting
Ok. Do you use a torrent client like Azeureus?
As a matter of fact, when I saw this bug happen I was downloading the opensuse dvd using azureus.
Azureus has a pretty nasty bug where it repeatedly opens and closes a file, which causes the kernel to signal Beagle to reindex. There's not a whole lot we can do about that, although we've taken a couple of steps to help eliminate the problem. We changed the way updates are queued so that it should use substantially less memory, and we've blacklisted the ~/tmp directory. You can work around the bug by blacklisting your Azureus download in the beagle-settings tool. Filing a bug against Azureus or at least letting the developers know this is a problem would also be helpful.