Re: Disk Space DISAPPEARING
Rob-
Thanks for the edit; I'd done the cut-and-paste before I realized it was the same two lines over and over again. I'm on a different machine right now, so I don't have an exhaustive list of what widgets I use. I'll post what I've got active when I get a chance.
A little more info that may be of use to those who know more than I (which is pretty much everybody):
I checked with Activity Monitor, which showed me three different windowserver processes running (with only one user logged in). One was owned by my user name, and two (?) were owned by root. I quit the two owned by root, and the excessive logging seemed to stop... Deleting the two log files (/private/var/log/windowserver.log and /private/var/log/windowserver_last.log) recovered my missing disk space. In the "things that make you go hmmmmm..." file, the two process IDs you see in the log excerpt as throwing all the errors are the same process IDs reported by Activity Monitor as being owned by root... and the ID numbers are both over 1000, which leads me to believe that the system had been up for a while before those process started up. Stand by for more research...
Tim
P.S. This is the second time I've had this happen to me; I had restarted since the first time, and I have restarted after this time. When I got the pop-up dialog that "the startup disk is almost full," windowserver.log was about 27GB, and windowserver_last.log was about 3.4GB. After I restarted it rotated the log files, and windowserver_last.log was the 27GB file, while windowserver.log was down to a respectable 100KB or so...
