No, the cap is applied to the described _default_ values only, not to the ones you configure.
Journal limits are additive; that is, logs are only kept as long as they satisfy *all* limits, both time and space. So if you want to keep a large amount of logs, the first thing to do is raise SystemMaxUse=. Jan 20 20:53:44 radius systemd-journald[11847]: System journal (/var/log/journal/09c69409749a4…) is 4.0G, max 16.0G, 11.9G free. On Sat, Jan 20, 2018, 20:12 Jameson Graef Rollins < jroll...@finestructure.net> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20 2018, 4xy <garbagefe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have limit in 4Gb for journald regardless of the settings I've made. I > > see this line in the manual > > > > |$ sudo systemctl status systemd-journald ... jan 20 15:44:26 host > > systemd-journald[1218]: System journal (/var/log/journal/) is 4.5G, max > > 4.0G, 0B free. jan 20 15:44:26 host systemd-journald[1218]: Journal > started| > > > > I see this line in the manual. > > > >> The first pair defaults to 10% and the second to 15% of the size of > the respective file system, but > > each value is capped to 4G. > > > > I have about 1Gb logs per day. I would like to have ability to keep them > > about 3 months. > > > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48358430/how-to-make-journald-increase-logs-storage-capacity > > I'm very interested in the answer to this question. I did not realize > there was a hard limit on the amount of logs that journald can support. > I have a project where we need to indefinitely store logs being produced > at a rate of many Mb per day. A 4Gb limit would definitely be > problematic. > > Is there actually a hard limit? Why? Can it be circumvented? > > Thank you very much for the information. > > jamie. > _______________________________________________ > systemd-devel mailing list > systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > -- Mantas Mikulėnas <graw...@gmail.com> Sent from my phone
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