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diff --git a/man/en/sos-report.1 b/man/en/sos-report.1 index 51cf3436..a6d247b4 100644 --- a/man/en/sos-report.1 +++ b/man/en/sos-report.1 @@ -168,9 +168,17 @@ testing or other plugin defined behaviour. Use of \--verify may cause the time taken to generate a report to be considerably longer. .TP .B \--log-size -Places a global limit on the size (in MiB) of any collected set of logs. The -limit is applied separately for each set of logs collected by any -plugin. +Places a limit on the size of collected logs and output in MiB. Note that this +causes sos to capture the last X amount of the file or command output collected. + +By default, this is set to 25 MiB and applies to all files and command output collected +with the exception of journal collections, which are limited to 100 MiB. + +Setting this value to 0 removes all size limitations, and any files or commands +collected will be collected in their entirety, which may drastically increase the +size of the final sos report tarball and the memory usage of sos during collection +of commands, such as very large journals that may be several GiB in size. + .TP .B \--all-logs Tell plugins to collect all possible log data ignoring any size limits |