Runaway Logs Generation
kclockd generated approximately 250GB of logs from about 13:45 to 08:00. The log repeats are seen in prior rotated logs, but not to this extent.
Host system is a desktop running Kubuntu 20.04.
Example repeated log events:
Mar 23 07:56:22 <hostname redacted> org.kde.kclockd[142149]: waiting end 1960657792
Mar 23 07:56:22 <hostname redacted> org.kde.kclockd[142149]: start waiting, id: 1653346989 Wait Time: 18446744073709551615
$ grep kclockd syslog* | wc -l
3030267450
$ ls -hl syslog syslog.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 114G Mar 23 12:59 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 147G Mar 23 00:00 syslog.1
Edited by Everett Wilson