Hi, We have a 'temp reaper' daemon for deleting some temporary files that have not been used for some time (e.g. temporary E-mail attachments):
https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/osso-af-utils/src/temp-reaper.c It only seems to clear '/var/tmp' currently. I don't know why we have missed the wtmp file... A skilled do-it-yourself man could add '/var/log' there, recompile, and replace the binary. It should work if wtmp is not touched too often and it's not kept open by any program. BR; Kimmo On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:34, ext Nils Faerber wrote: > Hi! > I thought I should let you know... > > I am not sure if I really found any cure to anything but after the > latest discussions about the size of wtmp I checked mine on the 770 and > found a more than 200MB file! > > After gzip'ping it it shrank to just 5MB because it contains almost only > 0s. But there must be the information for 200MB stored somewhere in the > JFFS2 so I guess that even if it only has 5MB as a comporessed file the > impact on a JFFS2 can be much worse. > > So I enabled the R&D mode, became root and linked /var/log/wtmp to > /dev/null (who cares for this wtmp on the 770 anyway?). > > Before I did this I saw more and more weird phenomena on the device, > like crashing browser and spurious power-offs when case closed (almost > 100% battery, closed device one night, next morning it was powered off > and had to be rebooted!). > > Now after I zapped wtmp I have the feeling (!) that it behaves much > better again! I can browse pages that before did not work and I hope > that the power-downs are history now too (for the last three days they > are but you never know). > > Maybe someone else likes to try to this too and report his/her > experience here. > > Probably wtmp should be linked to /dev/null in the next software release > too. > > BTW: With every closure of the case the wtmp grows by about 3kB. You can > estimate with your usage how big it will get... > > Cheers > nils faerber _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
