asl, aslmanager and Missing Hard Drive space
I noticed recently I had been running out of hard drive space. Could not figure out why. I went through and cleaned up personal files and removed old applications, but the drive space kept evaporating. Started to really investigate today and found that my /private/var/log/asl directory was up to 102GB.
Insane.
I looked around and read all I could just to make a determination as to whether or not I could delete them without killing my Mac. I found that I could and did, recovering the space.
The reason I'm posting is to hopefully make others aware that this might be happening on their Macs and to try to see if anyone has some insight into what went wrong and how to prevent this from happening again.
I'm certain writing 102 GBs of log files since Dec. 18 was not Apple's intention. I see that aslmanager is a part of 10.5.6 (which I'm running), but do not see the process active in my Activity Monitor. Could this be why the folder filled up with so many asl files (2,046)? Does anyone have any idea how I can repair so the asl works properly?
Insane.
I looked around and read all I could just to make a determination as to whether or not I could delete them without killing my Mac. I found that I could and did, recovering the space.
The reason I'm posting is to hopefully make others aware that this might be happening on their Macs and to try to see if anyone has some insight into what went wrong and how to prevent this from happening again.
I'm certain writing 102 GBs of log files since Dec. 18 was not Apple's intention. I see that aslmanager is a part of 10.5.6 (which I'm running), but do not see the process active in my Activity Monitor. Could this be why the folder filled up with so many asl files (2,046)? Does anyone have any idea how I can repair so the asl works properly?
G5 Dual 2GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 2.5 GB RAM 1.2TB
