gigantic messages files created in /var/log makes system virtually unusable

[jd1008]

On 06/19/2015 02:27 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Hi,
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> Earlier today, I discovered my 2-week-old (in terms of installation) F21-> F22 system unusable. Upon investigation, I found / at 100%, because it had been overrun by a /var/log/messages file which was 7.5G. I deleted this file (and also removed auditd, horrifying!) but was wondering if there is a way to limit the size of the messages file or at least erase the old messages files once in a while.
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> My / is 14 GB, /boot is 1GB, and swap is 32 GB. Memory is 32 GB also. I installed Fedora 21 on June 3 or 4 and then upgraded to F22 last week using FedUp.
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> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Ranjan
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RAM is 32GB?
What is the size of swap?