SharePoint ULS Logs Eating Up Disk
by liquidpooled on Aug.25, 2008, under .NET, Microsoft, Office, Sharepoint Server, Windows SharePoint Services
The SharePoint ULS (Unified Logging Service) can be a great boon to a SharePoint administrator as well as the bane of your servers’ existence. ULS logs can be real space hogs, growing exponentially until your target drive for log storage only has 220 MB free. In a default configuration, this is your C: drive, where your main Windows installation exists.
One error that can fill up a log quicker than any other is a “Config Refresh” error, like the following:
The previous instance of the timer job ‘Config Refresh’, id ‘{FAB8EA19-77D9-4DE2-8E7B-B1D6A6DF06E8}’ for service ‘{217F0B4C-72BD-4C63-BF70-A3AB6E245E58}’ is still running, so the current instance will be skipped. Consider increasing the interval between jobs.
This error specific log message can manifest after the installation of KB928365. Thankfully, there is a fix/workaround detailed in KB941789. With the application of the workaround, you will be sacrificing some of the verbosity of your ULS logs, but your servers will run much happier as their disk will not be consistently away.