[systemd-devel] Heavy IO -- need help on how to debug

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 10.11.12 11:13, Pedro Francisco (pedrogfrancisco at gmail.com) wrote:

> Yesterday my system was slow and I checked iotop: systemd-journal was
> using 99% IO (but not CPU). I haven't restarted the machine, but kill
> systemd-journal didn't help, the process would respawn -- as expected
> -- and resume the heavy IO).

usually this simply indicates that something is sending journald lots of
messages. Have you tried stracing journald, to see what it is doing? If
you see a lot of recvmsg() this might be the indication that something
is spamming journald..

Lennart

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