[syslog-ng] memory leak?

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Wed Jun 7 11:18:32 CEST 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 15:41 +0800, Cai Wang(CD) wrote:
> Hi
> 
>          I have installed the Syslog-NG 1.6.10 in Red Hat 9.0
> environment, but when I test it as the following situation:
> 
>          
> 
>          Message sender  à  RH9 (Syslog-NG)  à  Message receiver
> 
>          
> 
>          They worked in Giga bits networks, but when I send message to
> receiver in 800M bps rate, the memory usage of Syslog-NG last to
> increase
> 
>          When Syslog-NG started, it used 5800k bytes of memory, and it
> used 8500k bytes after 1 hour.
> 
>          Could u give me some advice?

It might be used for internal memory based buffers (controlled by
log_fifo_size)

I currently don't know about any memory leaks after 1.6.7 (which was
related to spoof-source support)

-- 
Bazsi



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