Bug 23874 - system journal is limited to 8MB
Summary: system journal is limited to 8MB
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 6
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Base system maintainers
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Reported: 2018-11-21 15:48 CET by Pascal Terjan
Modified: 2020-08-02 22:00 CEST (History)
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Source RPM: systemd-230-12.3.mga6.src.rpm
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Description Pascal Terjan 2018-11-21 15:48:47 CET
On one of Mageia servers we don't have much logs available (up to a few hours, sometime abot half an hour) because journald discards them too quickly.

Based on the partition size (45G) and the man page, it should default to SystemMaxUse=4G, SystemMaxFileSize=512M and SystemMaxFiles=100 but it keeps only a single 8M file.

In the log it says:

Nov 21 15:17:15 duvel.mageia.org systemd-journald[39315]: System journal (/var/log/journal/) is 928.3M, max 4.0G, 3.0G free.

I restarted it forcing SystemMaxUse=4G and SystemMaxFileSize=512M and the file is now only 80M...

SystemMaxUse=4G doesn't seem to have any effect but if I remove SystemMaxFileSize it goes back to being 8M while it should be SystemMaxUse/8 according to the man page.
Marja Van Waes 2018-11-22 09:47:39 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => basesystem
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 1 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-02 22:00:05 CEST
This message is a reminder that Mageia 6 is end of life.

Mageia stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Mageia 6. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX (EOL).

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Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => ouaurelien


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