Disk FILLS with infinite logs - at least 2 years old bug

[kalpana]

EDIT: this is a rant. Sadly the replies have been blind to the central problem: the way the system handles an uncontrolled flux of logs, and the lack of warning to the user. I already know how to fix the log problem because unfortunately there is a lot of similar cases and plenty of posts with solutions.

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I can't believe this. I really can't. 2 years ago I installed Ubuntu and out of the blue the system frozed after some minutes of use. I discovered it was the disk filling with gigantic syslog, journal and kernel logs. I mean - growing at 1GB every 10 or 20 seconds.

The bug was known and could be prevented adding a line in grub. However, the problem itself is:

- The logs grow INCONTROLLABLY, filling the disk without limits. This IS BAD SOFTWARE DESIGN (or lack of), be it open source, proprietary, anarchocapitalist, xenomorph or whatever.

- There is no warning of disk filling. The system just freezes. Again - horrible design. Both MacOS and Windows warn when there is insufficient space.

But the worst part is that I installed Ubuntu 22.04 this week and two years later the problem is still there! No action was taken! How can this be? And I don't mean the originator bug, which is a hardware problem -- I mean the software design part. I can't believe two years and several reports this thing still happens.

Anyway. If I had the money I' buy a Mac but I'm stuck with this. Overriding the bug, the system works and is a very nice progress from the previous version. The desktop is very pretty.

Regards

Alvaro Medina