The installation is a fresh 1.6.6 installation on a clean install of Redhat 3.0. It's been running fine for about 2 weeks logging the same amount of traffic to local files only.
When I turned on the UDP destinations, it started chewing up memory. The destinations are receiving logs entries properly, and the source address is properly spoofed.

Versions of libs:

libnet 1.1.2
libol 0.3.14

Here's the syslog-ng config file - the only thing that changed to cause this memory eating behavior is the 3 lines under "# Sets up local destination for Cisco logs". It makes no difference if I am sending to a single host, or multiple, the memory "leak" is still there.

I have it currently running under "ElectricFence" looking for malloc problems - so far none, just memory consumption.

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options { long_hostnames(off); sync(0); };

source src { unix-stream("/dev/log"); internal(); };
source kernsrc { file("/proc/kmsg"); };
source net { udp(port(514)); };

# Sets up local desitation for Cisco logs
destination ciscolog { file("/var/log/cisco.log"); };

# Sets up forwarding to other hosts
destination loghostd { udp(loghostd spoof_source(yes)); };
destination loghosta { udp(loghosta spoof_source(yes)); };
destination scribe02 { udp(scribe02 spoof_source(yes)); };

# standard localhost logging stuff
destination authlog { file("/var/log/auth.log"); };
destination syslog { file("/var/log/syslog"); };
destination cron { file("/var/log/cron.log"); };
destination daemon { file("/var/log/daemon.log"); };
destination kern { file("/var/log/kern.log"); };
destination lpr { file("/var/log/lpr.log"); };
destination user { file("/var/log/user.log"); };
destination uucp { file("/var/log/uucp.log"); };
destination ppp { file("/var/log/ppp.log"); };
destination mail { file("/var/log/mail.log"); };

destination mailinfo { file("/var/log/mail.info"); };
destination mailwarn { file("/var/log/mail.warn"); };
destination mailerr { file("/var/log/mail.err"); };
destination local0 { file("/var/log/local0.log"); };
destination local1 { file("/var/log/local1.log"); };

destination all { file("/var/log/all.log"); };
destination allnet { file("/var/log/allnet.log"); };

destination newscrit { file("/var/log/news/news.crit"); };
destination newserr { file("/var/log/news/news.err"); };
destination newsnotice { file("/var/log/news/news.notice"); };

destination debug { file("/var/log/debug"); };
destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); };
destination console { usertty("root"); };
destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };

# Filters Cisco events - well, at least local7 and local4 events
filter f_cisco { facility(local7,local4);};
filter f_notcisco {not facility(local7, local4); };

filter f_auth { facility(auth); };
filter f_authpriv { facility(auth, authpriv); };
filter f_syslog { not facility(authpriv, mail) and not match(ppp.*LCP); };
filter f_cron { facility(cron); };
filter f_daemon { facility(daemon); };
filter f_kern { facility(kern); };
filter f_lpr { facility(lpr); };
filter f_mail { facility(mail) and not match (imapd); };
filter f_user { facility(user); };
filter f_uucp { facility(cron); };
filter f_ppp { program(ppp); };
filter f_news { facility(news); };
filter f_debug { not facility(auth, authpriv, news, mail) and not match(ppp.*LCP); };
filter f_messages { level(info..warn)
and not facility(auth, authpriv, mail, news); };
filter f_emergency { level(emerg); };

filter f_info { level(info); };
filter f_notice { level(notice); };
filter f_warn { level(warn); };
filter f_crit { level(crit); };
filter f_err { level(err); };

# Reflects Cisco SYSLOG packets to remote hosts
log { source(net); filter(f_cisco); destination(loghostd); };
log { source(net); filter(f_cisco); destination(loghosta); };
log { source(net); filter(f_cisco); destination(scribe02); };

# Keeps a copy for ourself
log { source(net); filter(f_cisco); destination(ciscolog); };

log { source(src); filter(f_authpriv); destination(authlog); };
log { source(src); filter(f_syslog); destination(syslog); };
log { source(src); filter(f_cron); destination(cron); };
log { source(src); filter(f_daemon); destination(daemon); };
log { source(kernsrc); filter(f_kern); destination(kern); };
log { source(src); filter(f_lpr); destination(lpr); };
log { source(src); filter(f_mail); destination(mail); };
log { source(src); filter(f_user); destination(user); };
log { source(src); filter(f_uucp); destination(uucp); };
log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_info); destination(mailinfo); };
log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_warn); destination(mailwarn); };
log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_err); destination(mailerr); };
log { source(src); filter(f_news); filter(f_crit); destination(newscrit); };
log { source(src); filter(f_news); filter(f_err); destination(newserr); };
log { source(src); filter(f_news); filter(f_notice); destination(newsnotice); };
log { source(src); filter(f_debug); destination(debug); };
log { source(src); filter(f_messages); destination(messages); };
log { source(src); filter(f_emergency); destination(console); };
log { source(src); filter(f_ppp); destination(ppp); };
log { source(src); destination(console_all); };

log { source(src); destination(all); };

# Log all non cisco stuff to localfile for debugging
log { source(net); filter(f_notcisco); destination(allnet); };

Henry -

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Subject	Re: [syslog-ng]Syslog-NG 1.6.6 memory leak when sending UDP logs

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 09:36 -0500, henry@shoelacecity.com wrote: > > I'm running 1.6.6 on Linux Redhat ES 3.0 logging Cisco router logs to > local files and it's been running just fine for over a week. > I just enabled forwarding for local4 and local7 (with spoof UDP) to > 2 additional hosts via UDP and noticed, within a day, that it > syslog-NG has consumed all available memory. It continues to log, > however, the system starts killing processes off unless I restart > syslog-ng. If I understand you correctly you use syslog-ng to send logs to another host via UDP. Is it a new installation or this installation has worked so far and upgrading to 1.6.6 is what triggered the problem? Are you using address spoofing (spoof-source(yes))? Can you post your configuration file? -- Bazsi _______________________________________________ syslog-ng maillist - syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Frequently asked questions at http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html