Quoting "Russell Coker" <russell@coker.com.au>:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, "Peter Ross" <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
Maybe it would be good to have something like plymouth take over the .xsession-errors. Send that data to a pipe which is read by a program that displays the last few megs of data instead of all of it.
Good old syslog maybe? "Message repeated x times" is already built-in.
That doesn't work for the situation where you have a set of three or more messages repeated or for the situation where you have 1000 variants of the same message (EG the same message repeated for each file in a directory or each memory address of an object that wasn't liked).
Well, you can filter for severity, drop and it only fills up /var/log. I have the habit to give /var/log an extra partition. To the delete - I did a reboot anyway. A modern desktop isn't predictable after a dozen background processes were running into difficulties. Cheers Peter