lennart's day : pulseaudio, systemd, initials and misconfigured system

I stumbled upon some kind of leak. /var/log/journal is eating 2GB. That explains why journalctl is sluggish as hell.

luser@x60s_GPT ~ % journalctl | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's,[^a-zA-Z\-],,g' > log
# 2 hours and 22MB later

luser@x60s_GPT ~ % sort log | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
1953078 pulseaudio
  62863 kernel
  39051 systemd
  14992 sudo
  14463 udisks-daemon
   7923 USRSBINCROND
   4015 usrsbincrond
   1601 dhcpcd
    733 systemd-logind
    704 systemd-journal

So pulseaudio is the prime suspect. A while back I used '-vvvv' for debugging purposes, but removed the vvvverbose option for at least a few weeks. It was dropping dozens of messages every 5 seconds and I can't find a way to trim the old persisted logs. I'm tempted to blindly delete them but will wait a bit before doing so.

tl;dr still looking for a way to manage, meaning trim, systemd journal disk usage a posteriori in case of log bloat.

Trivia: journal log header include LPKSHHRH. I thought it was a compression format magic number, PKZIP comes to mind, but apparently it is more of a signature.

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