HGL
optimistic-gold
Heroic logs eat up my storage
these past few weeks heroic logs and config files eat up my whole drive (275G ssd) i don't think these files must be this big.
Please help, i understand that ssds die faster when they are constantly at 90-100% capacity.
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vicious-gold•2y ago
that statement "SSDs die faster at higher capacity" is.. not quite the whole picture so it sounds more alarming that it really is imo.
NAND flash (the stuff SSDs are made of) "wears out" as you write data to it. If you imagine NAND flash as a bucket that holds a charge representing a 1 or a 0.. Every time you add and remove the charge, a little bit of the bucket stays "filled" each time that cycle happens. Over lots of writes, your bucket eventually becomes totally filled and you can no longer write to it (though you can still read)
Modern SSDs and OSs have a few technologies that help minimize write cycles to NAND cells to ensure a "long life"
One of these strategies is wear leveling. Its where the SSD's controller hardware will write to NAND cells as equally as possible.. preferring to write to a less used NAND cell.. as the drive fills up you can imagine that wear leveling becomes less effective since it only operates on unused cells. So your drive becomes a little less evenly worn over time.
Is this going to kill your nand faster? debatable. Modern SSDs are very resilient. To the point where its honestly not worth it to worry about.
I have a 11 year old SSD that has been very full for a very long time, and its still fine.
And thats before the invention of modern wear leveling in most SSDs 😛
That being said there are other reasons to not have your disk full haha just saying SSD wear is maybe not as concerning as you think
That being said, my logs folders arent this large.. do you play alot of different games for very long periods of time?
stormy-gold•2y ago
Next heroic will delete log files faster. Anyway there is a option to disable logs for games. This should avoid writing big logs
You only need gamelogs to debug if the game is not starting
vicious-gold•2y ago
do logs get cleaned up when a game is deleted
evident-indigo•2y ago
for the general logs, I'd jsut delete all of them now, heroic will delete all old logs in the next release but you don't need to wait
for the game log, you should disable logs in Settings > Advanced, that game seems to be printing A LOT of text to the STDOUT (probably some wine warning). it will not only save you space, it will probably improve performance to not write that much to the disk while you are playing
optimistic-goldOP•2y ago
thanks for the answer and to your question i only play fall guys and occasionally among us, no more games installed right now.
I'll do that immediately, thanks.