On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 10:50:39PM +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > > (I have not done any changes to the configuration of the journal, so this > could be the journal of a normal user (well, perhaps not, in this case it is > my home web and mail server and it probably produces more journal data than > a desktop user does)) > > [root@gw ~]# time journalctl | grep xyz > ... > real 25m31.478s > user 11m2.966s > sys 2m36.218s > [root@gw ~]# time grep -r --exclude-dir=journal xyz /var/log > ... > real 1m6.362s > user 0m2.253s > sys 0m1.201s > ... > [root@gw ~]# du -sh --exclude=journal /var/log > 620M /var/log > [root@gw ~]# du -sh /var/log/journal > 3.7G /var/log/journal > [root@gw ~]# I had a similarly huge journal (~1.4G). I had to restrict the size in journald.conf. See: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/440246> Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org