systemd-journald taking too much memory

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Hello,

from time to time, Thunderbird crashes on my computer. It doesn't happen all that often and so far I haven't lost any data, so this actually doesn't bother me that much.

But, when it happens, suddenly the process systemd-journald starts allocating more and more memory (this last time it went up to 1.3 GB), which makes the computer start swapping and for a few minutes it becomes quite unusable. I have no idea what journald is trying to log at that moment. This is what I found in the journal afterwards (also notice that last lines are out of order):

May 19 10:24:18 rory systemd-journal[7906]: Permanent journal is using 28.0M (max allowed 15.0M, trying to leave 4.0G free of 131.5G available → current limit 28.0M).
May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service stop-sigterm timed out. Killing.
May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: Unit systemd-journald.service entered failed state. May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service has no holdoff time, scheduling restart.
May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: Stopping Journal Service...
May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd-journal[7906]: Journal started
May 19 10:22:31 rory systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service watchdog timeout!
May 19 10:24:05 rory systemd[1]: Starting Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage... May 19 10:24:08 rory systemd[1]: Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage.

Is there a journald setting I could use to prevent this huge memory allocation?

Ondřej


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Greetings,
Ondřej Kučera


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