FuGeRTech

I am willing to bet that not too many people run into this issue, but it is still good to know. On, my client’s web server began to stall due to a full C: drive. Their server is an economy model and the C: drive is only 16GB. After some quick investigation, I found that 3.5GB were being used in the C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12LOGS folder. This is the default location for the trace log. The path must exist on all servers in the farm, too. I decided to turn down the logging, at least temporarily, to get the server running again. To complete this task, I took the following steps:

1. Navigate to SharePoint Central Administration
2. Click Operations
3. Click Diagnostic Logging
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page to the Trace Log section
5. Change Number of log files to 1
6. Change Number of minutes to use a log file to 5

My client’s server is back up and running again, and I should not have to worry about the Trace Log getting out of control again.

The downside is that my Trace Log only goes back to the last 5 minutes of work on the server. I am researching my options here. It may not be important enough though.