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> like, why would using a certain percentage of my total space be fine, what if all programs thought that?

Because the journal’s role in a system is inherently different than most programs. It’s collecting logs for everything; not just itself. It seems reasonable to me that a system-wide service would use a percentage of the system’s resources.

Plus, if you don’t like it, reconfigure it. It’s only the default, after all.



> Plus, if you don’t like it, reconfigure it. It’s only the default, after all.

Or -- and I know this is crazy but hear me out here -- if you don't like it, and it brings nothing but problems to the table, just don't use it at all.


What problems?


For me, literally everything it does is a problem, including:

The file format is not text, and I use it under Linux, which is good at processing text files.

The command line arguments are insane.

Bad handling of log lines emitted at system crash.

Broke an entire prod network’s observability stack because ubuntu replaced syslogd with it in the middle of an lts support cycle.

Brings in a systemd dependency, which causes 100x more problems than this.


> For me, literally everything it does is a problem, including:

That makes it sound that your main problem is the fact that it exists.

> Broke an entire prod network’s observability stack because ubuntu replaced syslogd with it in the middle of an lts support cycle.

That's more ubuntu's fault I guess. I don't really remember this happening though.

> Brings in a systemd dependency, which causes 100x more problems than this.

Is it other made up problems or real things?




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