Win XP low disk space weirdness

[chaswood]

Occaisionally I get a "low disk space" pop-up on my system (20gb drive - 2 10gb partititions). Searching for large files reveals a 2.5gb text file:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\WMI\trace

When I reboot, this file goes back to a reported 0kb, but I can still open it with an editor and it is filled with hex and references to dlls and system files, etc.

Does anybody know what program is responsible for creating this monster and how I can turn it off? It has the smell of debug code in XP. I've dug through the knowledge base on Microsoft Technet but can't find anything useful.

 

[chaswood]

bump

 

[bsobel]

WMI stands for Windows Management Instrumentation, you don't have Tivioli or anything else 'weird' installed on this box do you? If you have Tivoli for some reason, see if you ahve wbencntl on your system, this should allow you to adjust the trace settings.

Another option is to download filemon from sysinternals and find what process is writing those files out, that should help narrow down WTF is happening 😉

Best,
Bill

 

[chaswood]

Thanks for the filemon tip, Bill. I'll give it a try.

No, I don't have Tivoli or any other 3rd party management tools, but I have had a few pop-ups say that WinXP had encountered an error and would I like to send a report to Microsoft, which I have done. I wonder if this might have turned on some logging.

Digging through MS TechNet and some of the Knowledge Base articles, it looks like WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) does have trace tools, but I can't find any that point at this file to log the output.

I'll post again as I learn more.