I have seen that, but is that not something like 'accepting log entries and sending data to /dev/null'? I am looking for an option that does not process anything. > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/journald.conf.html#Stor > age= > > → volatile > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I have started to upgrade a few machines from CentOS7 to recent > versions of CentOS/Rocky. However I don't really get why there is a > systemd-journald process writing stuff to disk while I have explicitly > configured that logs should go to a remote syslog server. > > > > Reading such pages [1] does not really explain the design idea behind > wanting to generated 2x the amount iops. One would think with all this > environmental co2 global warming stuff, design would be aimed at being > more efficient. > > > > 1. why do I need system-journald? > > > > 2. why is it not a service that can be disabled? > > > > 3. How can I make sure that none of the logs I have, are not having a > duplicate somewhere? > > > > I have 'slower' distributed storage, so it is important to minimize > the amount of useless io being generated. > > I was already complaining to Bill Gates, he should shut up about the > environment. If he did not hire 'lazy' people and spend a few billion > more on development we would have a lot less energy consumption, because > windows is using quite a lot of resources compared to linux. Now > upgrading, I have ~2x iops then before. > > > > Can anyone help me with my 3 questions?