On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:

> List,
> I tried 5.4.0 last weekend on two machines and ran it for almost a week.
> During that time I noticed that every day when I got home from work both
> machines server/log collector and my client machines fans were racing
> (both laptops, Compaq Armada M700's) ? I logged in ran top and found
> rsyslog consuming 99% of the cpu on both machines? After I restarted
> rsyslog on both they seemed to run normal. The next day the same thing.
> By this time I was watching more closely. I noticed that it took about
> an 45 to 60 minutes and rsyslog would have consumed 95 to 99% of the cpu
> on both machines?
>
> I tried to reboot both machines but it would still happen. I have
> switched back to 5.3.7 which doesn't have this problem.
>
> I'm running Debian Lenny on both machines.
> I compiled rsyslog with this:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-relp
> --enable-imtemplate --enable-omtemplate --enable-rfc3195 --enable-imdiag
> --enable-mail --enable-zlib --enable-mysql --enable-gnutls
> --enable-imdiag --enable-imfile --enable-omprog --enable-omudpspoof
> --enable-omstdout --enable-diagtools
> make
> checkinstall -D make install
>
> I used the same commands to make 5.3.7 and 5.4.0.
>
> Is anyone else seeing high cpu loads with 5.4.0?

my ubuntu laptop ends up with hundreds of thousands of messages/sec and 
eats up 100% cpu with an error message about access not being allowed.

other than that I have had no problems with excessive CPU, even under 
heavy loads.

David Lang

> Thanks,
> Ralph
>
>
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