F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

[Suvayu Ali]

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 at gw ~]# time journalctl | grep xyz
> ...
> real	25m31.478s
> user	11m2.966s
> sys	2m36.218s
> [root at gw ~]# time grep -r --exclude-dir=journal xyz /var/log
> ...
> real	1m6.362s
> user	0m2.253s
> sys	0m1.201s
> ...
> [root at gw ~]# du -sh --exclude=journal /var/log
> 620M	/var/log
> [root at gw ~]# du -sh /var/log/journal
> 3.7G	/var/log/journal
> [root at 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,

-- 
Suvayu

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