[systemd-devel] journal and /run/systemd/journal/syslog

[Umut Tezduyar]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Umut Tezduyar <umut at tezduyar.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Lennart Poettering
>> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>
>>> We though about just bumping this globally via sysctl, but we feared
>>> that might not sit well with some folks, as we shouldn't change a global
>>> setting just because one user of it would benefit, especially given that
>>> we don't know the effect this might have on others...
>>
>> I want to go this route and I think it is not possible at the moment
>> due to undetermined start order between syslog.socket and
>> systemd-sysctl.service. Can we change that?
>
> It really makes more sense to add a socket option to the kernel to
> allow a privileged process to bump the limit for the one socket
> setsockopt() is called, and not change and rely on a global
> system-wide value affecting the entire system.
>
> Kay

We are totally on the same page on having a per-socket limit but I am
guessing this change is not going to happen tomorrow. Even if it did,
adopting the new kernel will also take some time. It would be nice to
have a solution meanwhile.

Umut