Anyone else experienced the same problem. Would really appreciate your help.
Manoj On 4 December 2015 at 12:21, Manoj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > I checked and both instances of client have same parent process with pid > 3933. I was doing load testing with large bursts of log messages (100MB in > a minute) and then I noticed this behavior. Before using > forcesingleinstance, rsyslog was spawning 4-5 instances of client to keep > up with load. > > ubuntu@ip-10-35-157-45:~$ pstree -s -p 5600 > init(1)���������rsyslogd(3933)���������client.py(5600) > ubuntu@ip-10-35-157-45:~$ pstree -s -p 5605 > init(1)���������rsyslogd(3933)���������client.py(5605) > > > Manoj > > > On 4 December 2015 at 11:50, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 4 Dec 2015, Manoj Kumar wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> I am using Rsyslog v 8.14.0 with an external module written in Python and >>> integrated via omprog. I want rsyslog to spawn only single instance of >>> external module and therefore use forcesingleinstance configuration. The >>> behavior I see is that >>> >>> - rsyslog spawns a process for client.py, then this process becomes >>> inactive and rsyslog spawns another process. And the old one keeps >>> lingering. >>> - I do not want a lingering inactive process as it is consuming extra >>> memory. >>> >>> How can I get rid of inactive lingering process. Thank you for your help. >>> >>> local1.* action(type="omprog" binary="/home/ubuntu/client.py" >>> queue.filename="elmo" queue.type="linkedlist" forcesingleinstance="on") >>> >>> >>> e.g. top output >>> >>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ >>> COMMAND >>> >>> >>> 5605 syslog 20 0 78.3m 25.6m 4.5m S 0.0 0.3 0:15.66 >>> /usr/bin/python /home/ubuntu/client.py >>> >>> 5600 syslog 20 0 75.4m 22.7m 4.5m S 0.0 0.3 0:10.34 >>> /usr/bin/python /home/ubuntu/client.py >>> >> >> hmm, I only see one instance of things running on my systems (and I don't >> do the forcesingleinstance), if you do ps -ef |grep client.py does it show >> that they are both children of the same process? or are they children of >> different processes? >> >> David Lang >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad >> of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you >> DON'T LIKE THAT. >> > > > > -- > ~Manoj > -- ~Manoj _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
