On 12 July 2011 15:13, <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, this does sound like you aren't able to keep up with the incoming log > volume, what sort of volume do you get?
14 hosts, a total of about 70Mb of logs for today, logfile sizes are between 1-7Mb >> >> >>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
