CORRIGENDUM:
It looks very much like a leak. As I've heard last week from our development team, they seem to have seen similar massive leaks when using UDP spoofing. But I need to confirm that first. I'll let you know tomorrow or the latest by next Wednesday.
Ok, I've checked back again with that developer and ...
The leak manifested itself when calling syslog() over a perl script or something similar, I don't exactly remember. The gross and I/O intesive
Actually it was a bug in the Perl Module Net::RawIP. We needed specially crafted UDP packets for sending them to syslog-ng. So my barking is wrong here and I do _NOT_ see this memory leak. Sorry for the noise and happy debugging :). Regards, Roberto Nibali, ratz -- ------------------------------------------------------------- addr://Rathausgasse 31, CH-5001 Aarau tel://++41 62 823 9355 http://www.terreactive.com fax://++41 62 823 9356 ------------------------------------------------------------- terreActive AG Wir sichern Ihren Erfolg -------------------------------------------------------------