journalctl -fu takes over a second on my NAS with the logs on an SSD even.
I fucking hate systemd's logging so much due to this crap, don't make me read docs for every little thing, I just want to cat a damn log file, pipe it through grep and call it a day.
Weird. My best attempts at measuring it here put it at somewhere 0.07s on my server.
> But I think what systemd did could have been done in a more transparent and decoupled fashion that didn't involve binary logs.
shrug I've never seen that as a concern, really.
> I don't see how this could possibly break any tool
It's even better not to be concerned with this at all. Take a look at the --cursor option.