[Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl

Wed Feb 6 10:44:44 CET 2013

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 10:35:12AM +0100, EatDirt wrote:
+> 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).
+
+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)?
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+