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): merkaba:~> cat /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog /var/log/syslog { rotate 7 daily missingok notifempty delaycompress compress postrotate invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null endscript } /var/log/mail.info /var/log/mail.warn /var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.log /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/kern.log /var/log/auth.log /var/log/user.log /var/log/lpr.log /var/log/cron.log /var/log/debug /var/log/messages { rotate 4 weekly missingok notifempty compress delaycompress sharedscripts postrotate invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null endscript } Do you have any intention to reduce this at least a bit? Hmm, I see this defaults to 10% (SystemMaxUse) of the filesystem. This can get pretty large with a larger root filesystem. Ah, it seems I can set a "MaxRetentionSec=" to "14day" or so. Okay, that will cover my needs I think. Still, I send this as you raise the question whether the current default is good for systems with SSD or embedded systems. At least it can easily get much larger than what rsyslog produces by default and may be an unexpected additional size allocation for administrators of systems. Thanks, Martin -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.18.0-tp520 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages systemd depends on: ii acl 2.2.52-2 ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-58 ii libacl1 2.2.52-2 ii libaudit1 1:2.4-1+b1 ii libblkid1 2.25.2-4 ii libc6 2.19-13 ii libcap2 1:2.24-6 ii libcap2-bin 1:2.24-6 ii libcryptsetup4 2:1.6.6-4 ii libgcrypt20 1.6.2-4+b1 ii libkmod2 18-3 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 ii libmount1 2.25.2-4 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii libsystemd0 218-2 ii mount 2.25.2-4 ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-58 ii udev 215-8 ii util-linux 2.25.2-4 Versions of packages systemd recommends: ii dbus 1.8.12-1 ii libpam-systemd 218-2 Versions of packages systemd suggests: ii systemd-ui 3-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org