[Straw] Straw logs gone berzerk.

[Charles McCabe <mccachar consultingprof com>]

> Hi all.  I'm sure this isn't the right place for this question, but
I'm
> not sure I can call it a bug, either, and I don't see a "support list".
> 
> Straw works great on my FC4 machine (2.6.14-1.1656_FC4, but other
> kernels have had the same problem), except that periodically it starts
> writing insane numbers of log.* files in ~/.straw over and over again,
> then deletes them.  It freezes Straw entirely and makes the rest of the
> machine crawl.
> 
> Below is the output from two consecutive "ls-lh" during the problem.
> 
> ...
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155715
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155716
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155717
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155718
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155719
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155720
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155721
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155722
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155723
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155724
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155725
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155726
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155727
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155728
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155729
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155730
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155731
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155732
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155733
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:18 log.0000155734
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155735
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155736
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155737
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155738
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155739
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155740
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155741
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155742
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155743
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155744
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155745
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155746
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155747
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155748
> address hidden .straw]$ ls -lh
> total 86M
> -rw-rw-r--  1 cmccabe cmccabe  12K Feb 13 12:15 config
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe  24K Feb 13 12:10 __db.001
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 272K Feb 13 12:10 __db.002
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe  96K Feb 13 12:10 __db.003
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 440K Feb 13 12:10 __db.004
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe  16K Feb 13 12:10 __db.005
> -rw-------  1 cmccabe cmccabe  85M Feb 13 12:19 itemstore.db
> -rw-rw----  1 cmccabe cmccabe 1.0M Feb 13 12:19 log.0000155751
> 
> Straw was installed with Fedora, and yum'ed up to:
> straw-0.22.1-6
> 
> If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be much obliged.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chaz