Repeating error filling my syslog

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kwin_core: parsing edid failed

This is causing gigabytes of data to be written to my message log. Any simple way to suppress this message?

I know its caused by my using a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter, but the message is killing my logs.

Thanks.

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systemd, syslogd, some other log server, or directly written to /var/log by the application?

If it’s systemd and logged to the journal as the kwin_x11 unit - so you have entries from running journalctl -u kwin_x11, then I don’t know a way to change journald to filter them before being logged but you can log a unit to RAM (man journald.conf, search “Storage=”) and restrict the max size.

To do so, create /etc/systemd/journald@kwin_x11.conf with the contents:

[Journal]
Storage=volatile
RuntimeMaxUse=1M

Then systemctl restart systemd-journald.