{"id":6211,"date":"2009-10-30T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2009\/10\/30\/sharepoint-log-files-growing-out-of-control\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:21:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:21:24","slug":"sharepoint-log-files-growing-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/sharepoint-log-files-growing-out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharepoint log files growing out of control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Beta 2 evaluation process, I&#8217;ve seen a couple of reports of customers having problems with Sharepoint log files growing out of control &#8211; gigabytes in just a few minutes.&nbsp; Needless to say, it fills up disks and creates all kinds of havoc.&nbsp; While I don&#8217;t know the root cause, we have found a bunch of useful information about it and a solution to make it stop.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve included that info here in hopes of making it more readily available.\nAll the cases I&#8217;ve seen so far fill the log file with messages starting with &#8220;<span>The previous instance of the timer job <\/span>&#8221;&nbsp;\nHere&#8217;s a forum thread on the issue:\n<span><a title=\"http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/sharepointadmin\/thread\/e6db3ae1-48c1-4d0d-9461-bd249f7c2453 Druk op CTRL en klik als je de link wilt volgen\" href=\"http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/sharepointadmin\/thread\/e6db3ae1-48c1-4d0d-9461-bd249f7c2453\">http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/sharepointadmin\/thread\/e6db3ae1-48c1-4d0d-9461-bd249f7c2453<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;\n&nbsp;And here&#8217;s a blog post on how to fix it:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/josrod\/archive\/2007\/12\/12\/clear-the-sharepoint-configuration-cache-for-timer-job-and-psconfig-errors.aspx Druk op CTRL en klik als je de link wilt volgen\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/josrod\/archive\/2007\/12\/12\/clear-the-sharepoint-configuration-cache-for-timer-job-and-psconfig-errors.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/josrod\/archive\/2007\/12\/12\/clear-the-sharepoint-configuration-cache-for-timer-job-and-psconfig-errors.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\nHope this is helpful,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Beta 2 evaluation process, I&#8217;ve seen a couple of reports of customers having problems with Sharepoint log files growing out of control &#8211; gigabytes in just a few minutes.&nbsp; Needless to say, it fills up disks and creates all kinds of havoc.&nbsp; While I don&#8217;t know the root cause, we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>As part of the Beta 2 evaluation process, I&#8217;ve seen a couple of reports of customers having problems with Sharepoint log files growing out of control &#8211; gigabytes in just a few minutes.&nbsp; Needless to say, it fills up disks and creates all kinds of havoc.&nbsp; While I don&#8217;t know the root cause, we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}