[systemd-devel] journald leaking maps?

[Dave Reisner]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:19:08AM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and David Strauss at 12/10/12 05:39 did gyre and gimble:
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> >> Something is obviously not good there! journald is using something in
> >> the region of 250MB res.
> >>
> >> What's the best way to debug this?
> > 
> > What version are you on? The Fedora 17 journal does excessive mapping
> > that's fixed in current versions.
> 
> Arg, I forgot that detail - I'm on 194, no patches to journal related
> stuff applied.
> 
> As others are not seeing it jump out at them, I figured it might be due
> to just using /run and not flushing it to disk etc.
> 
> Col
> 

(crap, resending because I fail at reply all)

No, I see this too, and I'm keeping persistent logs:

# grep -cF /var/log/journal /proc/155/maps
604

journal process is up to 170MB RSS, and 2400MB virtual memory.

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