Bug#773538: systemd: journal is quite big compared to rsyslog output

Luca Boccassi bluca at debian.org
Sun May 26 19:10:55 BST 2024


Control: close -1 252-1

On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:32:33 +0100 Martin Steigerwald
<Martin at Lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 218-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I have this here:
> 
> merkaba:~> du -sch /var/log/* | sort -rh | head -10
> 1,3G    insgesamt
> 1,1G    /var/log/journal
> 143M    /var/log/atop
> 53M     /var/log/collectl
> 13M     /var/log/installer
> 6,0M    /var/log/kern.log.3.gz
> 5,9M    /var/log/debug.3.gz
> 3,9M    /var/log/atop.log.8
> 3,6M    /var/log/atop.log.10
> 3,5M    /var/log/atop.log.14
> 
> I think the journal takes quite a bit of space compared to what
rsyslog
> produces with its standard logrotate settings (especially if you
> substract the 143M atop performance data):

compact mode has been implemented, that's good enough already, for
other RFEs just open them upstream, nothing to do downstream

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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