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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2018-02-09 20:10:00 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2018-02-09 20:10:00 +0100
commitaa9122bf3d52fb7e4e7638d1e8e3a3c5cc3c2694 (patch)
treed4be79e71cef5f4c7e3eae14adab8249f2c5f77c /src/journal
parentcadc80b873794e52cb73235e8c0a03fe665d64af (diff)
downloadsystemd-aa9122bf3d52fb7e4e7638d1e8e3a3c5cc3c2694.tar.gz
Revert "Periodically call sd_journal_process in journalctl" (#8147)
This reverts commit 992149c07e3ecfbfe4067641e92a6923e7aacda4. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/8144#issuecomment-364464627 $ (set -o pipefail; sudo ./build/journalctl --no-pager | wc -l; echo $?) Failed to process inotify events: Bad file descriptor 1025 1
Diffstat (limited to 'src/journal')
-rw-r--r--src/journal/journalctl.c28
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/src/journal/journalctl.c b/src/journal/journalctl.c
index 2cf35f7e66..bb9cfb6dc4 100644
--- a/src/journal/journalctl.c
+++ b/src/journal/journalctl.c
@@ -81,8 +81,6 @@
#define DEFAULT_FSS_INTERVAL_USEC (15*USEC_PER_MINUTE)
-#define PROCESS_INOTIFY_INTERVAL 1024 /* Every 1,024 messages processed */
-
#if HAVE_PCRE2
DEFINE_TRIVIAL_CLEANUP_FUNC(pcre2_match_data*, pcre2_match_data_free);
DEFINE_TRIVIAL_CLEANUP_FUNC(pcre2_code*, pcre2_code_free);
@@ -2641,32 +2639,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
goto finish;
n_shown++;
-
- /* If journalctl take a long time to process messages, and
- * during that time journal file rotation occurs, a journalctl
- * client will keep those rotated files open until it calls
- * sd_journal_process(), which typically happens as a result
- * of calling sd_journal_wait() below in the "following" case.
- * By periodically calling sd_journal_process() during the
- * processing loop we shrink the window of time a client
- * instance has open file descriptors for rotated (deleted)
- * journal files.
- *
- * FIXME: This change does not appear to solve the case of a
- * "paused" output stream. If somebody is using `journalctl | less`
- * and pauses the output, then without a background thread
- * periodically listening for inotify delete events and cleaning
- * up, journal logs will eventually stop flowing in cases where
- * a journal client with enough open files causes the "free"
- * disk space threshold to be crossed.
- */
- if ((n_shown % PROCESS_INOTIFY_INTERVAL) == 0) {
- r = sd_journal_process(j);
- if (r < 0) {
- log_error_errno(r, "Failed to process inotify events: %m");
- goto finish;
- }
- }
}
if (!arg_follow) {