[systemd-devel] Question regarding configuration of SystemMaxUse and SystemKeepFree

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On 02.09.2023 12:22, PureLinux Betriebsführung wrote:
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> 
> The documentation states, that there are relative values used per
> default, but they are capped (as you mentioned) at a specific value. So
> for me, it looks like journald is also supporting relative values.
> 
> So i am wondering about the fact, that journald.conf is allowing only
> absolute values like e.g. SystemMaxUse=1G and not SystemMaxUse=60%.
> 
> I am actually unsure, whether journald is really not supporting relative
> values for the mentioned configuration directives, or whether i am just
> configuring it wrong?
> 

As of today it does not support percentages in configuration file.