https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888035#c0 Summary: journal is never pruned Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: systemd-maintainers@suse.de ReportedBy: bwiedemann@suse.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: Development Blocker: --- might be related to bug 838475 I found that after operating one 12.3 install (on ext4 on SSD) for two years, logging into icewm would take very long (5-10 seconds) with disk-activity even though it is a very lightweight window-manager that normally loads in under a second. journalctl shows -- Logs begin at Mon, 2012-06-11 21:34:55 CEST, end at Sat, 2014-07-19 06:12:45 CEST. -- and takes 7 seconds just to scroll to the end of the output. # time cat /var/log/journal/e6927a41c46c30ad2a8253c4000001be/* > /dev/null real 0m7.487s user 0m0.007s sys 0m1.590s # du -m /var/log/journal/e6927a41c46c30ad2a8253c4000001be/ 1773 total There was 568MB of journal~ files among those. IMHO, there should be a default setting / logrotate entry to prune journal entries older than a certain age (e.g. 2 months) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.