Bug 1328187

Summary:	journalctl generates an excess amount of logs
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	Udi Kalifon <ukalifon>
Component:	rhosp-director	Assignee:	Angus Thomas <athomas>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Arik Chernetsky <achernet>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0 (Liberty)	CC:	aschultz, bnemec, dbecker, jschluet, mburns, morazi, rhel-osp-director-maint
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Target Release:	8.0 (Liberty)
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Description Udi Kalifon 2016-04-18 15:47:44 UTC

Description of problem:
My instack machine ran out of disk space. I wanted to clean up under /var/logs and saw that the journal directory already grew to 3GB size. The machine was up for only 1 day. This was a 7.3 install which was upgraded to 8.0, but I also checked on a bare metal machine with a clean 8.0 install and the journal directory there was on 4GB as well.


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install an undercloud and deploy an overcloud.
2. Run 'sudo du /var/log -h' to see how much space each sub-directory is taking there


Actual results:
/var/log/journal is huge


Expected results:
More reasonable logging

Comment 3 Alex Schultz 2018-03-12 14:32:55 UTC

This can be tuned in systemd if necessary, but we won't fix this as part of the Director Deployment configuration.