Why is rotated journal log size not identical with SystemMaxFileSize or one eights of SystemMaxUse?

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Issue

  • Why is rotated journal log size not identical with SystemMaxFileSize or one eights of SystemMaxUse?
]# egrep "Storage|SystemMax" /etc/systemd/journald.conf
Storage=persistent
SystemMaxUse=500M
#SystemMaxFileSize=

]# ls -lh /var/log/journal/13db0992d2bee21a027b05353182be08/
total 105M
-rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 8.0M Jun 30 15:16 system.journal
-rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal  48M Jun 30 14:56 system@e75f1eb6820a4bb5929005d194b15798-000000000017f565-00055327135c0024.journal
-rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal  48M Jun 30 15:16 system@e75f1eb6820a4bb5929005d194b15798-0000000000193ef4-0005532714d4b20b.journal

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux v. 7

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