Some time ago I had a problem with slow boot. Once that was fixed I started to have the opposite problem, that is long delays with high disk activity during shutdown, getting much worse with time. Again this turns out to be triggered by journald: once the log file had grown past 20MiB or so there would be a noticeable delay when flushing the log to disk and it became unbearable at 80MiB. The time is superlinear with log size: a verify on the current 7MiB journal file takes roughly 1.5s (17s for a loop of 16 verifies), the 114MiB for the old file are already over 30s. The solution (for me) was to set SystemMaxFileSize=8M in /etc/systemd/journald.conf so that the active journal file gets rotated much earlier than with the built-in defaults. I have a rather small separate /var, but that file would have grown to about 300MiB. considering that most people probably have probably much larger /var partitions and the superlinear scaling characteristics, I think it would be advisable to provide more sensible defaults with the distribution. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf rackAttack: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org