Bug#856265: systemd-journald: RuntimeMaxUse is not properly obeyed

[Stephan Sokolow (You actually CAN reply)]

Ahh.

Is there currently any functionality in journald for controlling 
flushing to limit RSS or is this just a case where journald's built-in 
logging capabilities are not currently suited to constrained systems?

On 17-02-27 07:04 AM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 27.02.2017 um 10:41 schrieb Stephan Sokolow (You actually CAN reply):
>> Package: systemd
>> Version: 215-17+deb8u6
>> Severity: normal
>> File: /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> While configuring a Debian jessie VM for testing deployments to a 256MiB
>> VPS, I discovered that no combination of settings I tried would keep
>> journald's memory usage from climbing significantly above the limits I
>> set, except Storage=none.
>
> That's a misunderstanding. RuntimeMaxUse= configures the size of the
> journal files in /run/systemd/journal.
>
>

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