appium/appium — pull request #1436 by boxiong (2013-11-07 18:25:19+00:00)
Title: Added an option to suppress excessive logging from UIALogger.

The code change is aimed to provide an option to suppress excessive logging from UIALogger. This is done by adding the following key-value pair in file '~/.instruments.conf'
# Suppress excessive logging
verbose=false

As a result, the file size of 'Automation Results.plist' under folder '/tmp/appium-instruments/Run 1' becomes much smaller after a test run (see attached before and after images). Another side benefit is that instruments can dump out screenshots quicker to the same folder when we decrease the logging verbosity. This has helped us to mitigate an issue which we have recently run into, with similar symptoms to issue 253 [https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/253].

![verbose mode](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/4976735/1494279/d3ed0b5a-47d9-11e3-912c-b3d6734f05d8.png)
![nonverbose mode](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/4976735/1494283/d89864e2-47d9-11e3-8445-d5233c73d82b.png)