[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 2.0rc1 memory usage

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 19:47 -0500, Martin, David M wrote:
> Anyone running 2.0rc1 on Solaris 9 (sparc)? 
> If so, what memory requirements are you seeing for the syslog-ng
> process?
> 
> My install handles ~ 700 messages/sec (all UDP) and over the course of
> a day syslog-ng will gradually consume nearly all available free
> memory (I've seen it up to 1GB).
> 
> (syslog-ng is bounced by logrotate daily, so the process repeats
> itself) 
> I was able to substantially decrease the rate of consumption by adding
> the 'flush_lines" global (syslog-ng process now at 91MB and
> growing ... slowly).
> 

This definitely seems to be some kind of memory leak. Can you post a
configuration file that reproduces the problem?

Hopefully it is a leak in syslog-ng itself and not in one of the system
libraries.

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Bazsi