[systemd-devel] systemd-journalctl Failed to iterate through journal: Cannot allocate memory

[David Lambert]

Lennart,
     Thanks for your timely and informative replies. All is much clearer 
now that I have found the documentation :-[

Dave.

On 04/02/2012 09:49 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 30.03.12 11:55, David Lambert (dave at lambsys.com) wrote:
>
>> Lennart,
>>      I think I found another clue. I noticed that the directory
>> /var/log/journal was being used in addition to /var/run/log/journal.
>> I do not want persistent logging, so I removed /var/log/journal.
>> When I did this, systemd-journalctl appeared to work correctly.
>>      Obviously I am mis-understanding (and mis-using) the journaling
>> features of systemd. Could you please point me to any overview of
>> where and how the journaling  sub-system stores its data?
> /var/run is simply an alias for /run on modern systems.
>
> If you reduce the number of journal files you are unlikely to hit the
> address space limit, as described in the earlier mail.
>
> It's documented in systemd-journald.conf(5).
>
> Lennart
>