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has caused the Debian Bug report #689053,
regarding rsyslog: slow or dead omysql backend can hang rsyslog
to be marked as done.
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689053: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689053
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Package: rsyslog
Version: 5.8.11-1+b1
Severity: important
We recently added the omysql backend to rsyslog to centralize all logging to a
MySQL database.
The link to the database was a bit flakey lately and a syslog client, slapd,
was producing tons
of log lines for debugging purposes. This lead to rsyslog staying behind with
logging for
nearly 30 minutes and apparently filling up all its buffers. That prevented
rsyslog from accepting
more logs, which even froze slapd (which is a bug in slapd as well, see
#689025).
rsyslog should rather drop messages to a certain backend if it is not available
and keep on
logging to available backends or at least make this behaviour configurable so a
broken logging backend
can not freeze rsyslog.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages rsyslog depends on:
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-32
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
Versions of packages rsyslog recommends:
ii logrotate 3.8.1-4
Versions of packages rsyslog suggests:
pn rsyslog-doc <none>
pn rsyslog-gnutls <none>
pn rsyslog-gssapi <none>
ii rsyslog-mysql 5.8.11-1+b1
pn rsyslog-relp <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
>> bts: Explain why you're closing these bugs here:
>> - Bug #689053: rsyslog: slow or dead omysql backend can hang rsyslog
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