For example :

journalctl -r
-- Logs begin at Thu 2020-04-23 18:53:52 PDT, end at Thu 2020-07-02 10:40:23 PDT. --

lines removed by me for this post

 Jul 01 16:15:55 asus at-spi-bus-launcher[2801]: dbus-daemon[2801]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry' requested by ':1.0' (uid=1000 pid=2539 c> ...skipping... Jul 01 16:15:53 asus rtkit-daemon[2551]: Supervising 3 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.

How can I see what is skipped? Is this an efficiency feature of journalctl or some issue with my computer?

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The skipping results form your pager. journalctl uses less per default.

Those "skipping" lines are perfectly normal.

as posted by michas

Further:

Searching for some string is much faster than displaying each and every line on screen. Therefore if you search for a word, less will scan the file for that word and once it finds a line it will display only that page of lines where it found the word.

If you scroll back using your terminal you will see those "skipping" lines.

If you want to go backwards in your text just use the proper keys like arrow keys. This will move you through the text as it is without any "skipping"s.

I also suggest to repaint the screen by pressing the r key.

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