[Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl

[EatDirt]

On 06/02/13 09:52, Olav Vitters wrote:

> By default Mageia 3 should only have journalctl. Optionally you can
> still install rsyslog. Any syslog package will store the same
> information as journalctl does. Installing this by default provides
> little benefit, so it was decided that we only do journalctl by default.
> If installed, you double the storage used for logs.

Something I mentioned a while ago is the memory resources taken by 
systemd-journald vs rsyslog; it is an order of magnitude greater.

We don't care with modern machines, but I would let the option available 
for old small RAM computers (or reduce the systemd-journal mem resources).

Cheers,
Chris.