[dark-star]

He doesn't even know how to read man pages (journald.conf(5) describes the setup he is looking for), and he doesn't know how memory usage on Linux works (shared /mmap()ed memory is counted for each process). Do you really think his issues go away when he switches to Devuan? He'll probably just yell at different clouds

Other than that, Devuan is a solid choice for people who want to get rid of systemd. It comes with the Debian-typical rather old versions of most programs, but I guess for a file server it doesn't matter much if you run kernel 4.19 or 5.15

[Arch-TK]

The systemd man pages are a book. And, just for avoidance of doubt, that's not a good thing. I am never surprised when someone can't find out how to configure systemd to do what they want. It's just too enterprise grade.

[dark-star]

journald.conf(5) is ~2500 words and ~230 lines on a terminal 130 chars wide. Not exactly a book. systemd-journald(8) is ~220 lines and systemd(1) is ~750 lines. Big? yes. But nothing compared to some other man-pages (ever tried `man gcc` or `man bash`?)

People complain about how bad or non-existing Linux's man-pages are compared to the BSDs, and then systemd comes along with a really extensive and well-written set of manpages and people complain that it's too much

Can't make everyone happy I guess...