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man: mention that units are 1024-based
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                                 limiting is applied per-service, so
                                 that two services which log do not
                                 interfere with each other's
-                                limit. Defaults to 200 messages in
+                                limits. Defaults to 200 messages in
                                 10s. The time specification for
                                 <varname>RateLimitInterval=</varname>
                                 may be specified in the following
                                 configured in
                                 <varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname> and
                                 <varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname> is
-                                available. Defaults to 5% of the size
+                                available. Defaults to 15% of the size
                                 of the respective file
                                 system. <varname>SystemMaxFileSize=</varname>
                                 and
                                 that usually seven rotated journal
                                 files are kept as history. Specify
                                 values in bytes or use K, M, G, T, P,
-                                E as units for the specified
-                                sizes. Note that size limits are
+                                E as units for the specified sizes
+                                (equal to 1024, 1024²,... bytes).
+                                Note that size limits are
                                 enforced synchronously to journal
                                 files as they are extended, and need
                                 no explicit rotation step triggered by
                                 <term><varname>MaxRetentionSec=</varname></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>The maximum time to
-                                store journal entries for. This
+                                store journal entries. This
                                 controls whether journal files
                                 containing entries older then the
                                 specified time span are
                                 journal files don't grow without
                                 bounds. However, to enforce data
                                 retention policies it might make sense
-                                to set change this value from the
+                                to change this value from the
                                 default of 0 (which turns off this
-                                feature). This settings also takes
+                                feature). This setting also takes
                                 time values which may be suffixed with
                                 the units year, month, week, day, h, m
                                 to override the default time unit of
                                 seconds. </para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>SyncIntervalSec=</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>The timeout before syncing journal
+                                data to disk. After syncing journal files have
+                                OFFLINE state. Default timeout is 5 minutes.
+                                </para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname></term>
                                 <term><varname>ForwardToKMsg=</varname></term>
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                   </para>
         </refsect1>