Comment 13 for bug 115774

I recently upgraded to Intrepid on my Acer laptop, and I came across a similar problem:

$ ls -lah syslog*
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 58 2008-11-25 10:37 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 242K 2008-11-25 10:36 syslog.0
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 762M 2008-11-24 02:00 syslog.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 20K 2008-11-20 11:02 syslog.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 20K 2008-11-19 10:38 syslog.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 187M 2008-11-18 09:54 syslog.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 19K 2008-11-17 09:19 syslog.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 21K 2008-11-14 10:13 syslog.6.gz

As you can see, syslog.1.gz and syslog.4.gz are still very large - even after gzipping. Before syslog.1.gz was zipped, it took up 15GB. I only noticed because gzip was using up 70% of my processor for 20 minutes..