windowserver_last.log question

[furcalchick]

i just ran disk inventory x and i noticed that my windowserver_last.log file is at 3.6 gigs. i have also noticed a slowdown in my computer the past few days as well (apps slow to launch, system running slower), so i am wondering if a large windowserver_last.log file will lead to a computer slowdown. thanks.

 

[emailboy]

Happened to me today

I started having problems on my laptop today. I have the hard drive partitioned into two volumes (one for everything from Apple, one for my own stuff). With 65 open tabs/windows in Safari and oodles of other stuff, I was low on VM (12 swap files). I started getting alerts about being low on space on the startup volume. Disk Inventory X revealed that /var/log/windowserver_last.log was 6GB! The entries were all error messages from today.

I created /etc/daily.local, copied the log-rolling code from /etc/daily to it and changed the log files to windowserver.log and windowserver_last.log and ran it as a test. It worked terrifically.

I'm not sure this log rolling is needed, since none of the other machines have large /var/log/windowserver* files. But I figure it won't hurt.