Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

[Steve]

Steve wrote:
destination sshguardproc {
    program("/usr/local/sbin/sshguard"
        template("$DATE $FULLHOST $MESSAGE\n"));
    };
The presence of the above line is definitely what triggers the excessive 
CPU usage - it is almost as-if syslog-ng is 'busy-waiting' for the 
sshguard process.  The sshguard process is running - but using zero CPU.

I have this problem with syslog-ng versions 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 (the one 
with ~x86)...

This is very frustrating... having played around, the syslog-ng tends 
towards using 100% CPU when my server is otherwise quiet - if, and only 
if, I have the program destination... even if the destination is not used.