yep, I can confirm that the problem is gone. Downgrade back to 8.20 solved the problem.
Anybody with the same problem? -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog kills entire system => force reboot Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:03:58 +0200 From: Raffael Sahli <[email protected]> To: [email protected] fyi since the downgrade to 8.20 (from 8.21), we didn't notice any problems. On 09.09.2016 15:48, Raffael Sahli wrote:
On 09.09.2016 15:09, David Lang wrote: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Raffael Sahli wrote: >> >> Actually I tried $ActionResumeRetryCount with a value 10, @see 2nd >> configuration. But faced the same problem. >> >> >> Strange thing is, I deployed new rsyslog configs without the remote >> forwarding, but this morning one server was unresponsive again, same >> problem. >> >> Does anybody know, can this also happen without remote forwarding? > > where are your local logs being written? is there any chance that it's > running out of space or otherwise falling behind (think of a slow NFS > server) > > remember that even with retries = 10 rsyslog won't stop completely, but > it will slow things down drastically so that it appears to be dead. No, just the local filesystem. And the fs and disk i/o is fine. > >> Maybe this more a general syslog problem, as far as I know the RFC, >> since syslog should never loose any messages by default. >> I just like to know what rsyslog config I should use with remote >> forwarding, but without any timeout for syslog services if syslog is >> somehow unresponsive. > > per the syslog spec it should block forever if it can't deliver the > message. Yeah thats the point, I don't get that > > But to really see what's going on, configure impstats and have it write > to a local file, that will let you see what's going on when it appears > to stalls. Mhm will try it out, or/and try downgrade to an earlier version since I did not have such problems before.
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