[Bug 1871575] Re: journald log seems to grow without limit

[Balint Reczey]

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/journald.conf.html


** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  journald log seems to grow without limit

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  This ticket is more related to the default configuration of journald
  in Ubuntu, not to a bug in journald itself.

  I was looking for a problem on my computer and used journalctl. The
  first log entry was starting 2 years ago, showing that its content was
  never erased or rotated.

  By looking at the log size, it was about 3 GB, which is getting big
  for a log file.

  I think Ubuntu should ship with a default configuration to avoid this
  log to grow too much.

  I started with Ubuntu 18.04 and now I am using Ubuntu 20.04

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: systemd 245.2-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-21.25-generic 5.4.27
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu24
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Apr  8 10:13:25 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-07 (732 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180403)
  MachineType: MSI MS-7971
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-21-generic root=UUID=8ba07857-778c-4c11-a816-69094a9b6a9d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: systemd
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-04 (3 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 12/21/2016
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 1.H0
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string
  dmi.board.name: Z170-A PRO (MS-7971)
  dmi.board.vendor: MSI
  dmi.board.version: 1.0
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI
  dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1.H0:bd12/21/2016:svnMSI:pnMS-7971:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnZ170-APRO(MS-7971):rvr1.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr1.0:
  dmi.product.family: Default string
  dmi.product.name: MS-7971
  dmi.product.sku: Default string
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: MSI

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