Sharepoint 3.0 creating huge log files

[Zucarita9000]

I've recently re-installed IIS on our server, and also installed Sharepoint Services 3.0.
Everything works quite well, except that after a few days I noticed that something was eating up space on the C: drive. After a few minutes of file-hunting, I found that this directory:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOGS

was filled with huge log (.txt) files. Within just 2 or 3 days, there were 6GB of log files (some txt files were over 600MB).

What the hell is up with that?? I also noticed that from time to time the server starts to lag horribly, and I suspect it's because this issue.

Any ideas?

 

[Zucarita9000]

This is an excerpt of one of the log files:

Timestamp Process TID Area Category EventID Level Message Correlation
06/19/2007 10:20:51.10 mssearch.exe (0x1704) 0x0C94 Search Server Common GatherStatus 0 Monitorable Insert crawl 461 to inprogress queue hr 0x00000000 - File😀:\office\source\search\search\gather\server\gatherobj.cxx Line:6421
06/19/2007 10:20:51.14 mssearch.exe (0x1704) 0x0C94 Search Server Common GatherStatus 0 Monitorable Request Start Crawl 0, project Search, crawl 461 - File😀:\office\source\search\search\gather\server\gatherobj.cxx Line:2775
06/19/2007 10:20:51.14 mssearch.exe (0x1704) 0x0C94 Search Server Common GatherStatus 0 Monitorable Advise status change 0, project Search, crawl 461 - File😀:\office\source\search\search\gather\server\gatherobj.cxx Line:4688
06/19/2007 10:20:51.14 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0DD4) 0x0E98 Search Server Common MS Search Administration 7hkp High Processing content source 'Default'.
06/19/2007 10:20:53.48 mssdmn.exe (0x13C0) 0x0B74 Search Server Common MS Search Indexing 8z15 Medium GetChanges(before ws call) URL http://serverhp:12953, Content Database Id='{02e657db-6adf-4dac-8d40-1626d394290a}', LastChange 1;0;02e657db-6adf-4dac-8d40-1626d394290a;633177922675600000;1969, CurrentChange
06/19/2007 10:20:53.78 mssdmn.exe (0x13C0) 0x0B74 Search Server Common MS Search Indexing 8z16 Medium GetChanges(after ws call ) URL http://serverhp:12953, LastChange

 

[Zucarita9000]

Please!!! Does anyone have any ideas what the hell are these logs for?

 

[RebateMonger]

You missed a level in the folder that you mentioned above. It's:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions

According to this statement from a WSS MVP, that's where the SharePoint 2007 error logs are located.

 

[Zucarita9000]

Thanks Rebate... any ideas how to disable them?

 

[Raiden256]

You may have figured this out, but I think this would be the navigation path:

Central Administration -> Operations -> Diagnostic Logging

From there you can play with the Event Throttling (what you log) and Trace Log (how much you log) settings.

 

[Zucarita9000]

Yeah, I already found it. Thanks for your reply thou 🙂