Bug 867407

Summary:	Journal leaks memory
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac>
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	systemd-maint
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	johannbg, lnykryn, metherid, mschmidt, msekleta, notting, plautrba, systemd-maint, vpavlin
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Description Zdenek Kabelac 2012-10-17 13:01:16 UTC

Description of problem:

It seems the process 'systemd-journal' is eating a lot of memory on my system.
(Running lots of test, thus producing lots of logs')

The max size I've noticed so far before  restarting journal service was about 260MB -  service restart fixes the issue for me for a while.

Looking at my:   /etc/systemd/journald.conf  
it's missing  'ImportKernel=no' from .rpmnew.

Is that a reason for unlimited memory growth ?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-194-1.fc18.x86_64

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Comment 1 Michal Schmidt 2012-10-17 13:13:38 UTC

Possibly fixed upstream already as a conclusion of this thread:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-October/006883.html

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=89de694724f376a6852e879fe987e7e531327654
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=a2ab7ee6122a5006cafc45d7b81f726656fb65cc

Comment 2 Zdenek Kabelac 2012-10-17 13:19:34 UTC

Yes, looks like there is a lot of file (already invisible in system)

/run/log/journal/xxxx/system.journal

in the process map.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-10-23 01:04:51 UTC

systemd-195-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemd-195-1.fc18

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-10-23 06:48:33 UTC

Package systemd-195-1.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing systemd-195-1.fc18'
as soon as you are able to, then reboot.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-16709/systemd-195-1.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-10-26 19:37:46 UTC

Package systemd-195-2.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing systemd-195-2.fc18'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-16709/systemd-195-2.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-12-20 15:56:17 UTC

systemd-195-2.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.