On 12 July 2011 19:58, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Ah ha. I was using the latest ubuntu release, that I had backported to lucid (5.8.1) Now using 5.8.3 and memory use looks a *lot* better. (Sitting around 240M resident) Thanks! I'll make a suggestion to the ubuntu maintainer to move up to 5.8.3 :) >> -----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 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
