An open systemd issue reports journald doing about 50 IOPS to write two log lines per second
- Sources: primary, discussion
- Summary: The reporter measures write amplification at the VM block layer rather than in iotop, which is what closed the earlier report. The issue records about 50 IOPS to write two log lines per second.
- Why it matters: journald is the default log path on the distributions most servers run, so write amplification there affects storage-constrained hosts broadly.