The version is too old. TLS had a memory leak, which has been fixed in 5.6.4.
Note that 5.6.5 is the current stable, so using 5.6.4 calls for unneeded
problems, aka upgrade to the latest one ;)

RAiner

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Forbes
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:07 AM
> To: [email protected]
> 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
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