Sometimes systemd-journald can take several hundred megs of RAMor more which is bad for microservices and embedded devices. Edit /etc/systemd/journald.conf You can set it to max 5M of RAM like below: SystemMaxUse=5M ........

Is your /var/log/journal overweight and bloated? For example a decent install of Debian 11 with most applications and services ends up being about 4.9G with the journal taking a few gigs. du -hs /var/log/journal/ 1.3G /var/log/journal/ By default in a lot of distributions there is no maximum size so it will keep growing. This is especially problematic for embedded distributions and devices, but is also a huge waste of sp........