[systemd-devel] Documentation question

[David Lambert]

On 02/29/2012 07:26 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>
> You can put limits on the log size however, for example via
> SystemMaxUse=64M or SystemKeepFree=500M or suchlike.
I am still getting large logs even when I set SystemMaxUse=1M, as shown 
below. Do I also need to set SystemMaxFileSize?

root at argus2:~# du -sh 
/run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal
14M    /run/log/journal/bd4dce8541064e29b00e90f7234b3287/system.journal


root at argus2:~# cat /etc/systemd/systemd-journald.conf

#  This file is part of systemd.
#
#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
#  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.
#
# See system-journald.conf(5) for details

[Journal]
#Compress=yes
#RateLimitInterval=10s
#RateLimitBurst=200
SystemMaxUse=1M
#SystemKeepFree=
#SystemMaxFileSize=
#SystemMinFileSize=
#RuntimeMaxUse=
#RuntimeKeepFree=
#RuntimeMaxFileSize=
#RuntimeMinFileSize=
ForwardToSyslog=no
#ForwardToKMsg=no
#ForwardToConsole=no
#ImportKernel=yes

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