abrt cache max size in F15

Jiri Moskovcak jmoskovc at redhat.com
Sun May 15 13:30:14 UTC 2011


On 05/15/2011 01:06 PM, Frederic Muller wrote:
> On 05/15/2011 07:01 PM, Frederic Muller wrote:
>> On 05/15/2011 06:47 PM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
>>> On 05/15/2011 12:18 PM, Frederic Muller wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I just did a rm -Rf * on /var/cache/abrt-di/ as it was 3.2GiB and
>>>> growing.
>>>>
>>>> After checking the 927 bugs related to abrt I could only find this one
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529573 which matches my
>>>> issue but relates to F12 and where maintainer says:
>>>> "Abrt watches for the space filled by backtraces, it's quota can be
>>>> changed in config file /etc/abrt/abrt.conf. The default value is 1G."
>>>>
>>>> My abrt.conf does have "MaxCrashReportsSize = 1000" but it doesn't seem
>>>> to work neither.
>>>
>>> - is not a quota for debug infos but for saved crashes
>>> - the quota for debuginfos in ABRT2 (F15) is 4GB and is configurable in
>>> /etc/abrt/events.d/ccpp_event.conf line:
>>>
>>> abrt-action-install-debuginfo --size_mb=4096
>>>
>>> - we will provide better documentation soon
>>>
>>> J.
>>>
>> Well then I'm still within the limit and can now adjust my default max
>> size.
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> Fred
>
> Actually there are 2 lines with the same parameters, one in this section:
> EVENT=analyze_LocalGDB analyzer=CCpp backtrace=
>
> and that section:
> EVENT=reanalyze_LocalGDB analyzer=CCpp
>
> So do the 2 sizes add up in the same sub-directory making a total of
> 8GiB or else how does it work? I have only 10GiB allocated to / (and
> /home is on a separate partition).
>

- no, they don't sum, but to make it work right, you need to change both 
lines - this is not necessary with the latest upstream version, so I 
will create an update as soon as it's stable.

J.

> Thank you.
>
> Fred



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