Hi, I'm looking through some journals now, and even though I've seen it a few times I haven't thought about it until now.
systemd-journal[1151]: Runtime journal is using 8.0M (max allowed 4.0G, trying to leave 4.0G free of 63.7G available → current limit 4.0G). Could this line be cleaned up so you don't have to look up a man page to try to figure out what this really means? Here's my uneducated guess and confusion of this line: * Runtime journal is using 8.0M - Okay, so currently the journal uses 8MB of disk-space. No problem. * max allowed 4.0G - Okay, so the journal should not grow beyond 4GB, makes sense. No problem. * trying to leave 4.0G free of 63.7G available - Uhm, what!? So it will grow until there is 4GB left on the filesystem? Not so okay. * current limit 4.0G - Ehh ... okay ... so make up your mind, please! So will the journal grow until 4GB or 59.7GB. But then I looked into /var/log/journal ... # du --si -s /var/log/journal/ 4.3G /var/log/journal/ I do see that both system,journal and user-UID.journal are both 8.4MB, and from that I can guess what the log entry tried to tell me with "Runtime journal" ... but how is /that/ information useful for me, from a sys-admin point of view? My point is ... you're providing too much information and you need to understand more underlying things about the journal. Simply state how much disk-space the journal uses now and how much it will grow. Period. Don't do any "we can grow until size X, but decided to grow to Y instead" information. And yes, I deliberately didn't look into any man pages or code this time. Because this is what I believe most sys-admins will do: guess. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel