[rakoo]

I don't even have an esoteric setup and every time I want to read logs I'll have to wait 30 secs. Even though there is absolutely no activity.

[toupeira]

Try "journalctl -e" or "journalctl --since today", it seems like by default it will load all available logs which leads to this slugishness.

[perlpimp]

it is slow because log is read written in a block binary format but pager accepts byte granular fseek feature to go forward without loading everything into $PAGER's buffers.

[rakoo]

See ? People complaining before reading TFM. Thank you !

[vidarh]

Sounds like you're running into some bug. I've never run into any perceptible lag.

[the_mitsuhiko]

That sounds odd. Did you try to strace it and see what it actually does?