[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng version 2.0.3 memory problems

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 16:01 -0400, James Long wrote:
>             I’ve installed syslog-ng-.2.0.3 on a Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux 5 server.  I’m using eventlog-0.2.5 and libnet 1.1.2.1.  I
> compiled syslog-ng without any problems.  I’ve got a fairly generic
> config file.  Whenever I start the service;  the process will chew
> through all of the available ram on the server (2 gb) then terminate
> with the following error Glib-ERROR gmem.c:514: failed to allocated
> ### bytes.  This usually takes about 15 minutes to happen.  Any
> thoughts?

Are you sure you are not feeding messages back into syslog-ng
recursively? 

How fast does the process grow? How much CPU does the process eat while
doing this?

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Bazsi