From d07f7b9ef2835c290d6beadebd17d15308608eea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:08:57 +0200
Subject: journal: immediately sync to disk as soon as we receieve an
 EMERG/ALERT/CRIT message

---
 man/journald.conf.xml | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man')

diff --git a/man/journald.conf.xml b/man/journald.conf.xml
index 487e8d618a..9219b3daaf 100644
--- a/man/journald.conf.xml
+++ b/man/journald.conf.xml
@@ -348,9 +348,17 @@
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>SyncIntervalSec=</varname></term>
 
-                                <listitem><para>The timeout before synchronizing journal
-                                data to disk. After syncing, journal files have
-                                the OFFLINE state. Default timeout is 5 minutes.
+                                <listitem><para>The timeout before
+                                synchronizing journal files to
+                                disk. After syncing, journal files are
+                                placed in the OFFLINE state. Note that
+                                syncing is unconditionally done
+                                immediately after a log message of
+                                priority CRIT, ALERT or EMERG has been
+                                logged, this setting hence applies
+                                only to messages of the levels ERR,
+                                WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG. The
+                                default timeout is 5 minutes.
                                 </para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
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