[syslog-ng]Re: syslog-ng's memory footprint growing constantly

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:05:29PM -0400, Craig J Constantine wrote:
> ...on 8/2/01 11:19 AM, the following was received from bazsi@balabit.hu
> 
> >ok, we have some kind of string leak. what does "hosts.org_dir" in your
> >environment mean? is it a directory which syslog-ng creates, or a filename?
> >or some part of some message?
> 
> I have no idea. :) That string isn't in my syslog-ng config, nor 
> *anywhere* in the syslogs recorded by syslog-ng today, nor even anywhere 
> in the syslog-ng distribution. Might be just a lot over strings overlayed 
> in memory... very weird.

I found hosts.org_dir, it's in the file /lib/libnss_nisplus.so, so I assume
you are using nisplus. syslog-ng resolves a lot of hostnames, isn't it
possible that nisplus is leaking somewhere?

I've never ran syslog-ng with a computer using nisplus, that might be an
explanation why others didn't encounter this bug.

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