/var/log/acpid.log grows very quickly and becomes huge.

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • acpid is filling up /var/log/acpid with useless info. These messages are repeated over and over:
[Wed Apr 30 08:00:53 2014] completed event "processor CPU1 00000080 00000000"
[Wed Apr 30 08:00:53 2014] received event "processor CPU2 00000080 00000000"
[Wed Apr 30 08:00:53 2014] notifying client 11997[68:68]
[Wed Apr 30 08:00:53 2014] completed event "processor CPU2 00000080 00000000"
[Wed Apr 30 08:00:53 2014] received event "processor CPU3 00000080 00000000"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.2

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