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

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:31:41 -0600 jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 06/19/2015 02:27 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Many thanks and best wishes,
> > Ranjan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> RAM is 32GB?
> What is the size of swap?

Sorry, yes, RAM is 32 GB and so is swap. 

Ranjan

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