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 > > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com

