[Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl

[Olav Vitters]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 04:18:32PM +0100, eatdirt wrote:
> 
> >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.

I already mentioned the usage of mmap.

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Regards,
Olav