I have lots of error-xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx files in the state dir - is this normal?

[nebulous]

I have lots of error-xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx files in the state dir - is this normal?

[nebulous]

Feel free to delete them. Infinitude is intentionally a bit log-happy for debugging purposes.

[Darkknight33]

Hey, I was just looking at my state directory, I have over 6,000 error files going back about 2 years. I realize I can delete them, but I'm concerned about the quantity of files and that I'm about to move this to something backed by an microsd card instead of a HDD. I'd like to reduce the flash wear & file clutter if possible. Is there a way to reduce the logging, and especially rotate log files?

Edit: Infinitude is producing between 3 & 30+ .dat files a day.

Content mostly looks like the below, plus a read out of current HVAC stats:

error:
mismatched tag at line 1, column 1974, byte 1974 at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.28/XML/Parser.pm line 187.
XML::Simple called at ./infinitude line 109.

error:
mismatched tag at line 1, column 2268, byte 2268 at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.32/XML/Parser.pm line 187.
XML::Simple called at ./infinitude line 158.

not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 1912, byte 1912 at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.28/XML/Parser.pm line 187.
XML::Simple called at ./infinitude line 109.

[nebulous]

Looks like I have a few of those errors (6 over the last few months) - they look to be invalid/truncated xml files. possibly from broken connections to the Carrier servers, but that would be pretty frequent... 🤔

as for SD card writes - yep I understand the worry, but it can be largely mitigated by using f2fs on your sd card. If you're really concerned about writes you can also mount your state folder as an in-memory filesystem, see tmpfs but that would be lost every reboot without some kind of periodic copying.

[Darkknight33]

Are there any downsides to the state folder getting periodically completely wiped (from using tmpfs)? Looks like there are more than just error files in there. Alternatively, if you can point me to a line I can comment out to prevent it from creating the error files, I’m happy go into the container and make that change for just in my setup, with the understanding that it wouldn’t survive container updates, etc. The writes from infinitude are not on their own a real concern, but in combination with all the other HA bits and pieces running on the same system, each writing data into to their own logs that, honestly, nobody will ever see, I do have some concern about the life of the card.

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