Bug 789589

Summary: systemd-journal ignore file size bounds
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed Reporter: Alin M Elena <alinm.elena>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: bjoernv, meissner
Version: 13.1 Milestone 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Other   
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Description Alin M Elena 2012-11-14 13:03:22 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1308.0 Safari/537.17 SUSE/24.0.1308.0

Hi there,

 journalctl --disk-usage
Journals take up 3.9G on disk.
despite
# See journald.conf(5) for details

[Journal]
Storage=auto
Compress=yes
#Seal=yes
#SplitMode=login
#RateLimitInterval=10s
#RateLimitBurst=200
SystemMaxUse=50M
#SystemKeepFree=
SystemMaxFileSize=100M
RuntimeMaxUse=50M
#RuntimeKeepFree=
RuntimeMaxFileSize=100M
MaxRetentionSec=5day
MaxFileSec=1day
#ForwardToSyslog=yes
#ForwardToKMsg=no
#ForwardToConsole=no
#TTYPath=/dev/console
#MaxLevelStore=debug
#MaxLevelSyslog=debug
#MaxLevelKMsg=notice
#MaxLevelConsole=info


the MaxRetentionSec=5day is repected... this is how I managed to prune it at the moment.

journalctl --verify reports all the files as correct

systemctl status systemd-journald.service
systemd-journald.service - Journal Service
          Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-journald.service; static)
          Active: active (running) since Wed, 2012-11-14 12:56:45 GMT; 5min ago
            Docs: man:systemd-journald.service(8)
                  man:journald.conf(5)
        Main PID: 9301 (systemd-journal)
          Status: "Processing requests..."
          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/systemd-journald.service
                  └ 9301 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald

Nov 14 12:56:46 abbaton.ucd.ie systemd-journal[9301]: Allowing system journal files to grow to 200.0M.
Nov 14 12:56:46 abbaton.ucd.ie systemd-journal[9301]: Journal started
Nov 14 12:56:46 abbaton.ucd.ie systemd-journal[9301]: Missed 10 kernel messages
Nov 14 13:00:37 abbaton.ucd.ie systemd-journal[9301]: Missed 27020089 kernel messages
Nov 14 13:00:38 abbaton.ucd.ie systemd-journal[9301]: Missed 4093 kernel messages
Nov 14 13:00:39 abbaton.ucd.ie systemd-journal[9301]: Missed 4093 kernel messages
Nov 14 13:00:40 abbaton.ucd.ie systemd-journal[9301]: Missed 4092 kernel messages
Nov 14 13:00:41 abbaton.ucd.ie systemd-journal[9301]: Missed 4092 kernel messages

l -lrt /var/log/journal/a219e492a88d17cfa6d38d2a000004aa/
total 4179012
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     4096 Nov  6 15:10 ../
-rw-r-----  1 root root 89198592 Nov  9 22:52 system@231351a40b4346dbb272f6e941fe7e60-00000000000337a6-0004ce179446755a.journal
-rw-r-----  1 root root 86519808 Nov  9 23:03 system@231351a40b4346dbb272f6e941fe7e60-000000000006b046-0004ce17cffe2164.journal
-rw-r-----  1 root root 90624000 Nov  9 23:07 system@231351a40b4346dbb272f6e941fe7e60-00000000000a0f2b-0004ce17f52096de.journal
-rw-r-----  1 root root 89878528 Nov  9 23:26 system@231351a40b4346dbb272f6e941fe7e60-00000000000d9e86-0004ce1804695ec5.journal
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Alin

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
MaxFileUse and Size to be respected...
Comment 1 Frederic Crozat 2013-03-22 15:11:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML,
> like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1308.0 Safari/537.17 SUSE/24.0.1308.0
> 
> Hi there,
> 
>  journalctl --disk-usage
> Journals take up 3.9G on disk.
> despite
> # See journald.conf(5) for details
> 
> [Journal]
> Storage=auto
> Compress=yes
> #Seal=yes
> #SplitMode=login
> #RateLimitInterval=10s
> #RateLimitBurst=200
> SystemMaxUse=50M
> SystemMaxFileSize=100M

> Expected Results:  
> MaxFileUse and Size to be respected...

if SystemMaxUse < 2*SystemMaxFileSize, it will be set automatically at 2*SystemMaxFileSize (otherwise the journal can't rotate anything).

I've backported a fix on the journal which wasn't vacuuming properly journal, it is available in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/fcrozat:/branches:/openSUSE:/12.3:/Update/standard/
Comment 2 Frederic Crozat 2013-04-08 14:29:26 UTC
mr 163177 submitted
Comment 3 Marcus Meissner 2013-04-08 14:54:53 UTC
accepted
Comment 4 Bernhard Wiedemann 2013-04-08 15:00:10 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (789589) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/163178 Maintenance /
Comment 5 Bernhard Wiedemann 2013-04-11 11:00:08 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (789589) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/163605 Factory / systemd
Comment 6 Bernhard Wiedemann 2013-04-19 13:00:08 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (789589) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/172486 Maintenance /
Comment 7 Benjamin Brunner 2013-05-02 12:43:06 UTC
Update released for openSUSE 12.3. Resolved fixed.
Comment 8 Swamp Workflow Management 2013-06-10 09:06:56 UTC
openSUSE-RU-2013:0877-1: An update that has 8 recommended fixes can now be installed.

Category: recommended (moderate)
Bug References: 746595,789589,801878,808319,809646,809695,809820,812874
CVE References: 
Sources used:
openSUSE 12.3 (src):    systemd-195-13.25.1, systemd-mini-195-13.25.1