On 03/03/2012 11:29 AM, David Lambert wrote:
On 02/29/2012 07:26 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
You can put limits on the log size however, for example via
SystemMaxUse=64M or SystemKeepFree=500M or suchlike.
Further experimentation seems to indicate that the first time a limit is
reached, the system trims the log file back, BUT subsequently it appears
to ignore all limits:
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
252K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
256K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
296K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
300K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
68K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<journal file trimmed as expected
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
76K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
76K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
88K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
100K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
132K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
140K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
160K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
272K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
288K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
336K /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
612K
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<journal
file continues to grow ......
...
root@argus2:~# du -s
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal -h
1.3M
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<....and
grow until all memory is exhausted :(
Configuration file is:
root@argus2:~# cat /etc/systemd/systemd-journald.conf
# This file is part of systemd.
#
# systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# See system-journald.conf(5) for details
[Journal]
#Compress=yes
#RateLimitInterval=10s
#RateLimitBurst=200
SystemMaxUse=100K
#SystemKeepFree=
SystemMaxFileSize=200K
#SystemMinFileSize=
RuntimeMaxUse=1M
#RuntimeKeepFree=
RuntimeMaxFileSize=300K
#RuntimeMinFileSize=
ForwardToSyslog=no
#ForwardToKMsg=no
#ForwardToConsole=no
#ImportKernel=yes
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