[systemd-devel] Journal over NFS

[David Strauss]

I think mounting the journal directory over NFS is a bad idea. It's
most of why we've worked on journal2gelf at Pantheon and supported the
gateway HTTP-based access work.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Cliff Brake <cliff.brake at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have:
>
> * systemd v187 on 8 ARM systems
> * all 8 systems mount the /var/log/journal directory on a server via NFS
>
> We like the idea that all journals can be located in one place and
> querried on the server at the same time -- very neat.  However, thus
> far, it seems like it performs very badly.  For some reason the apps
> logging to the journal (via stdout) have significantly higher CPU
> load, and the network load seems rather high.
>
> We're still digging into this, but wondering if anyone else has writen
> to the journal over NFS?
>
> Thanks,
> Cliff
>
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