systemd

  1. Bug #1790205
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Comment 0 for bug 1790205

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Benjamin Bach (benjaoming) wrote : systemd journals take up too much space, aren't vacuumed automatically

After running Bionic for 3 months, I had 2.6 GB of journals.

I would not expect from a normal desktop user that they should have to run commands like `sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=10d`.

I would nominate this command as a sane default to have running at each reboot to ensure that logs do not exceed 500 MB:

sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=500M

Supposedly, a server should by default retain more logs, so perhaps this should be implemented through a configuration package "systemd-configuration-desktop" as a dependency of the ubuntu-desktop meta package?