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Prevent windowserver.log from filling with entries
Authored by: osxpounder on Jul 03, '07 11:54:53AM

This happened to me for the first time about a week or two ago.

I was running Cubase LE, doing some heavy sound editing, but also had other apps up from time to time, like Mail [a real pig now, increasingly slow to start or change mailboxes], iChat, Cisco VPN client, and of course TextEdit... I also ran Parallels a few times between sessions, and wondered if Paralells had eaten up my HD space [because it does seem to eat about 2-3GB, temporarily, when running, on the system partition for OSX].

I couldn't spend much time troubleshooting, because of the editing deadline. Once I discovered it was a "windowserver" log file [I think it was "windowserver_last.log"], I nuked that file [realizing I wouldn't know enough to use it to diagnose, and having no place to store its many GB]. After a reboot, all was fine. I don't know why

I haven't even finished reading this hint yet. Just wanted to report my similar experience here in case it illuminates something.



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