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Thanks to dust I deleted a 70 gig file on my drive
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I think something might be wrong with your Neovim if it aggregated 70 gigs of log files.
don't worry, they've just been using neovim for 700 years, it'll be alright
Sure, that's also a possibility. I'd be interested in their time machine though.
https://feddit.uk/post/3875313
So I found out that qbittorrent generates errors in a log whenever it tries to write to a disk that is full...
Everytime my disk was full I would clear out some old torrents, then all the pending log entries would write and the disk would be full again. The log was well over 50gb by the time I figured out that i'm an idiot. Hooray for having dedicated machines.
That's not entirely your fault; that's pathological on the part of the program.
I once did something even dumber. When I was new to Linux and the CLI, I added a recursive line to my shell config that would add it self to the shell config. So I pretty much had exponential growth of my shell config and my shell would take ~20 seconds to start up before I found the broken code snippet.
If you have ideas please let me know. I'm preparing to hop distros so I'm very tempted to ignore the problem, blame the old distro, and hope it doesn't happen again :)
I would have to look at the log file. Some plugin probably has an issue and writes massive amounts of data to the log every time you use Neovim. Monitor the growth of the log file and contact me via DM if it goes crazy again, I'm gonna try to figure out what's going on.