On 12 July 2011 10:28, <[email protected]> wrote: > this probably means that rsyslog is not keeping up with the volume of logs > being sent to it (causing them to queue and eat memory) > at this point 5.6.3 is a bit old, newer versions are probably faster and may > solve your problem just from being enough faster to keep up with the > incoming logs.
Pushed up to 5.8.1 and I still get the same amount of memory use. iostat and cpu use seem reasonably sane, though at peak times most of the threads peak to 99% CPU use. > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Mike Forbes wrote: > >> Subject: [rsyslog] High memory use by rsyslogd - 5.6.3 >> >> Rsyslogd is using 1.4G of resident memory. >> >> Here's my config snippets: http://paste.nothing.net.nz/806cba >> >> There's 14 hosts sending data to this rsyslog server. >> >> I've tried setting a ulimit >> (syslog soft stack 1024) >> >> via pam & /etc/security/limits.conf >> >> and ulimit -a as the syslog user shows >> >> stack size (kbytes, -s) 1024 >> >> >> Yet top clearly shows using 1.4G of resident memory: >> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND >> 16414 syslog 20 0 2006m 1.4g 1252 S 0 72.1 1:28.83 rsyslogd -c4 >> >> my rsyslogd version is rsyslogd 5.6.3 >> >> Any advice is welcome. >> >> -- >> // Mike Forbes >> GPG: BFC7 3F32 2CCF D91F 53E1 DF88 1578 B2E4 1399 6844 >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com > > -- // Mike Forbes Operations Engineer Koordinates Ltd. PO Box 1604, Shortland St, Auckland 1140, New Zealand Cell +64-21-999416 Phone +64-9-966 0433 Fax +64-9-969 0045 Web http://koordinates.com/ GPG: BFC7 3F32 2CCF D91F 53E1 DF88 1578 B2E4 1399 6844 _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
