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[Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have 2.5 GB of free space in $HOME, and a gwibber.sqlite file that is
3.5 GB in size

Every 14 minutes gwibber starts writing a gwibber.sqlite-journal file,
which fills up until I'm out of space.  2 minutes later it is deleted,
and 5 minutes after that it starts filling up again.  I think this has
gone on for hours.

So that may be a separate bug from the underlying issue of the database
being wastefully big to start with, but I'm just pointing out that it
can end up eating up to twice that amount of disk, and running into this
pathological periodic trashing of free space.

I'm running 12.04 precise, with gwibber 3.4.2-0ubuntu2.

What are some workarounds?  How can I e.g. temporarily just disable
gwibber when I'm low on space or get rid of it entirely?  What are the
consequences of uninstalling it?  What are alternatives to gwibber?  I
don't even care much about the tweet notifications....

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/799356

Title:
  gwibber stores extreme number of messages in gwibber.sqlite

Status in Gwibber:
  New
Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gwibber

  I noticed that ~/.config/gwibber/gwibber.sqlite is > 640 MB big!

  Having only run gwibber for a few months and not having posted or
  received more than a few hundred Twitter messages I was puzzled and
  took a deeper look in the database. To my surprise I find that gwibber
  has some 340,000 messages stored in the 'messages' table, complete
  with message text, of which only a small fraction are from me or to
  me.

  It looks like the bulk of the messages is the result of 'search'
  operations. Needless to say, I find this storing of messages extremely
  wasteful of disk space. It could easily lead to users running out of
  space on their home partition. I don't know if I'm using gwibber in
  the wrong way, but that doesn't really matter.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: gwibber 2.32.2-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Jun 19 12:15:46 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: gwibber

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