On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 10:50:39PM +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
(I have not done any changes to the configuration of the journal, so this could be the journal of a normal user (well, perhaps not, in this case it is my home web and mail server and it probably produces more journal data than a desktop user does))
[root@gw ~]# time journalctl | grep xyz ... real 25m31.478s user 11m2.966s sys 2m36.218s [root@gw ~]# time grep -r --exclude-dir=journal xyz /var/log ... real 1m6.362s user 0m2.253s sys 0m1.201s ... [root@gw ~]# du -sh --exclude=journal /var/log 620M /var/log [root@gw ~]# du -sh /var/log/journal 3.7G /var/log/journal [root@gw ~]#
I had a similarly huge journal (~1.4G). I had to restrict the size in journald.conf. See:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/440246
Cheers,