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 > 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

