[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng fails with more than one program destination

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 08:36:23AM -0500, George Madden wrote:
> I tried 1.3.14 and it has the same problem. It seems to be load related. The
> machine I'm running this on receives about 1000 messages a minute. When I
> stop logging to this computer from the other machines it restarts fine. Is
> there any other debugging you'd like me to try?
> 
> -George

hmmm... I'll try to increase the load. I've just arrived home and catching
up messages. (I was skiing in Czech Republic last week :)

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Balazs Scheidler" <bazsi@balabit.hu>
> To: <syslog-ng@venus.terrasoft.hu>
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 2:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Syslog-ng fails with more than one program
> destination
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 02:50:13PM -0500, George Madden wrote:
> > > I was testing with 1.3.13 and found it fails with a kill -HUP when more
> than
> > > one "program" destination is used. Syslog-ng never restarts and starts
> using
> > > all the cpu. I tested this on both Redhat 6.1 and FreeBSD 3.3. When I
> remove
> > > all but one program destination, it works fine. It also works fine under
> > > syslog-ng 1.2.3. I assume I can have more than one program destination
> but
> > > maybe not.
> > >
> > > Here is the debug output. It never closes the fd and the cpu goes to
> about
> > > 97%
> > >
> > > binding fd 3, inetaddr: 0.0.0.0, port: 514
> > > io.c: Preparing fd 3 for reading
> > > io.c: listening on fd 4
> > > io.c: Preparing fd 6 for writing
> > > io.c: Preparing fd 7 for writing
> > > io.c: Preparing fd 8 for writing
> > > syslog-ng version 1.3.13 starting
> > > io.c: Preparing fd 5 for writing
> > > Garbage collecting while idle...
> > > Objects alive: 68, garbage collected: 4
> > > Garbage collecting while idle...
> > > Objects alive: 68, garbage collected: 14
> > > Garbage collecting while idle...
> > > Objects alive: 68, garbage collected: 28
> > > Garbage collecting while idle...
> > > Objects alive: 68, garbage collected: 37
> > > SIGHUP received, restarting syslog-ng
> > > Marking fd 3 for closing.
> > > Marking fd 5 for closing.
> > > Marking fd 8 for closing.
> >
> > I couldn't reproduce this problem on my Debian Potato system, everything
> > works fine. I'm releasing my current version as 1.3.14, check if the error
> > still occurs.

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