Lemmy Support

Funny... I was just getting annoyed by the same.

I think the culprit is the RUST_LOG env variable where by default everything is set to "info" or "debug". I had it on "info", but that was still very verbose. I am currently trying it with all "warn".

Edit: the pictrs log is also overly verbose by default it seems.

I just used the Docker logging options to cap the stdout/stderr log to a reasonable size. Just add logging options to each chatty service and change 25m to whatever makes sense for your environment.

docker-compose.yml:

services:
  ....
  lemmy:
    ...
     logging:                                                                                                                                                                                 
        options:                                                                                                                                                                               
          max-size: 25m
  pictrs:
    ...
       logging:                                                                                                                                                                                 
        options:                                                                                                                                                                               
          max-size: 25m