[Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl

[eatdirt]

> Are you sure that there still is a problem? There were some bugs that
> have been fixed months ago. Aside from that the memory usage could be
> off as journal uses mmap.
>
> But systemd always uses the journal (not runtime configurable IIRC), so
> best to make it efficient. It should also somehow be low maintenance.
> Meaning: maybe it will use less memory when there is less available
> (guessing)?
>


I don't know about mmap, but that's what a top gives on the current cooker:

  326 root       1   0 1064m  37m  36m S    0  1.9   0:14.73 systemd-journal

even though it is only virtual, that's sound crazy to go up 1GB.
rsyslog never goes above 1M.

Cheers,
Chris.