Bug 1301579

Summary:	Request to add journalctl --disk-usage output in sosreport
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	masanari iida <masanari.iida>
Component:	sos	Assignee:	Pavel Moravec <pmoravec>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.2	CC:	agk, bmr, gavin, pkshiras, plambri, sbradley
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/750
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Description masanari iida 2016-01-25 12:35:06 UTC

Description of problem:
Request to add "journalctl --disk-usage" output in sosreport

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sos-3.2-35.el7.noarch

Currently, the sosreport doesn't collect "journalctl --disk-usage".
It would be good to collect the data in sosreport.

Comment 2 Pavel Moravec 2016-01-25 13:09:29 UTC

Could you please elaborate why this information would be valuable to collect?

Can't be the same information extracted from current data, e.g. from size of

sos_commands/logs/journalctl_--all_--this-boot_--no-pager_-o_verbose

(though not sure how --this-boot can affect it - with default journald settings, these values match before and also after reboot)?

Comment 3 Bryn M. Reeves 2016-01-25 13:18:48 UTC

> Can't be the same information extracted from current data, e.g. from size of
> 
> sos_commands/logs/journalctl_--all_--this-boot_--no-pager_-o_verbose

No: that is a text rendering of the journal contents. The journal itself is stored in a binary format with additional metadata. Although the size of journal logs approximates the size of the journal they do not measure the same thing.

  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files/

This is also useful since it presents a global summary of disk usage rather than piecemeal per-file, e.g. (Fedora 23):

# journalctl --disk-usage
Archived and active journals take up 640.1M on disk.

With all that said on RHEL7 it is slightly less interesting/accurate:

# journalctl --disk-usage
Journals take up 96.0M on disk.

Although it is true that there are 96.0M of journal files present on this system:

# du -ch /run/log/journal/
96M	/run/log/journal/8f1a41c7c31a4575bd21b465748f123c
96M	/run/log/journal/
96M	total

These are all on the non-persistent (in-memory) /run file system - RHEL7 does not use persistent journald logs at all by default so this will only ever measure the size of the logs from the current boot.

That said I don't see any reason to not collect this & it is then available for other distributions (like Fedora) that do already offer persistent journald logs by default.

Comment 4 Pavel Moravec 2016-01-26 09:55:40 UTC

Makes sense. Esp. when cmd execution time and also output size are trivially small.

PR raised in upstream.

Comment 5 Pavel Moravec 2016-05-07 13:47:45 UTC

POSTed to upsetram as:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/commit/28c87cdb311bafa194a1d2d8df2421b2a80323a7

Comment 6 Pavel Moravec 2016-11-11 08:20:43 UTC

This has been fixed in upstream sos 3.3 we rebased to by [1] in RHEL7.3. Errata [2] should resolve this bug.

Please test [2] and in case it does not address the reported problem properly, reopen this BZ.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1293044
[2] https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2380.html