Disk space growing on the CQ author server?

If the disk space on the CQ5 author server is growing at 1-2GBs per day, then check on the filesystem, to see where the growth is at.

If you find that the "journal" directory is GigaBytes then check out this article : http://dev.day.com/content/kb/home/Crx/Troubleshooting/JournalTooMuchDiskSpace.html

Symptoms
With a default FileJournal configuration in place, depending on the activity on the repository, over time, many Journal log-files will be created. This eventually may cause a disk space issue and performance problems in applications that use CRX.

Cause
The default configuration of the Journal theoretically allows for an unlimited number of rotated log-files.
Non-clustered environment resolution :-

In a non-clustered environment where CRX is running standalone, it is recommended to configure the maximum size of a Journal log-file to 100MB and limit the number of allowed files to 1. This is more than sufficient for such a setup.

<Journal class="com.day.crx.core.journal.FileJournal">
<param name="sharedPath" value="${rep.home}/shared"/>
<param name="maximumSize" value="104857600" />
<param name="maximumFiles" value="1" />
</Journal>

Note: made this change on an author who was struggling to stay up daily and it made a difference. Also, we were able to cleanly shutdown the author after applying this change. Saved 35gb of disk space. Although, the journal file is still filling up 100MB every hour. I need to turn this off completely.