Negative effects of the RHEL default logging setup on performance and their mitigations
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This document describes two negative effects of the default logging environment setup in RHEL on system performance and it also outlines recommended mitigations.
Memory and storage
Systemd-journald on RHEL is configured to auto-detect which storage system to use for journal files, "volatile" or "persistent". The /var/log/journal file is not created by default, so...
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