Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog using gigabytes of RAM after recent updates (8.26?)

2017-04-07 Thread David Lang
the first thing is to check to see if you have delivery problems and queues building up. configure impstats to output information on queue sizes. There are not any known problems causing this. David Lang On Sat, 8 Apr 2017, Tomasz Chmielewski via rsyslog wrote: After a recent update to

[rsyslog] rsyslog using gigabytes of RAM after recent updates (8.26?)

2017-04-07 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski via rsyslog
After a recent update to rsyslog 8.26, rsyslogd process is using gigabytes of RAM on a few of my servers. Restarting rsyslogd helps, but RAM usage is slowly growing and growing. Is it a known issue? If not - how can I debug it? Tomasz Chmielewski https://lxadm.com

Re: [rsyslog] Memory sizing issue

2017-04-07 Thread Peter Viskup via rsyslog
Just did some analysis of rsyslog stats counters and found the following. The maxrss counter is increasing accordingly to size of queue. Seems there is much higher overhead than expected. I tried the message sizes of 1840/940/640/340 characters. These are the outcomes: size