Action disabled and that appears to have solved it.  I also agree that
this means it isn't a leak, but it did look like one at first!

Sorry for any confusion.

On 7/24/14, 10:47 AM, David Lang wrote:
> disable that action and see if it solves your memory usage.
> 
> for what it's worth, the term "memory leak" doesn't mean any time a
> program starts using lots of memory, it's when the program allocates
> memory for something and looses track of it so it can never free it.
> 
> In this case, if it is the queue for this action, this is not a leak,
> it's rsyslog doing exactly what you told it to and keeping track of
> these messages. If the server you are trying to deliver the messages to
> comes online, all that memory would end up being freed as the messages
> were delivered, showing that it's not a leak.
> 
> David Lang
> 
>  On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Micah Yoder wrote:
> 
>> Update: Got the increased dynafile queue size into prod yesterday.
>> Memory leak still exists. However, that action 16, which has the large
>> size queue, seems to be (if I'm counting right) going to an unreachable
>> elasticsearch server. Looks like that may be the issue .... :/
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