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08 June 2008

Late Spring Cleaning


Its facinating to see what a couple of years development and bugfixing work upon MySQL has unwittingly done to the free space on my main G5 PowerMac at home. I have captured a screenshot from GrandPerspective and as you can see, the largest file on my hard disk is the MirrorAgent.crash.log file, and all those pretty blocks on the left hand side of the window: They are all coredumps. A few swift commands at the console and I now have 154 GB of free disk space - two thirds free! Whoot!

So for all the MySQL Mac heads out there, check out your MirrorAgent crash log file and also the /cores subdirectory...