Sorry, got lost in the releases myself (After the release marathon ;)). The
current version is 5.8.3. Looking at the ChangeLog, 5.8.2 addresses memory
leaks. It usually is of advantage to try the latest stable version if you
have problems of this kind.

HTH
Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rainer Gerhards
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 9:54 AM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] High memory use by rsyslogd - 5.6.3
> 
> 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
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