[syslog-ng] 答复: puzzled about the system resources used by syslog-ng

liuruihong liuruihong at baidu.com
Thu Sep 20 09:03:32 CEST 2007


I see,perhaps the messages A received are different from B.


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发件人: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu
[mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] 代表 Balazs Scheidler
发送时间: 2007年9月20日 14:38
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主题: Re: [syslog-ng] puzzled about the system resources used by syslog-ng

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 12:27 +0800, liuruihong wrote:
> Eenvironment : 
> 
>  
> 
> under linux 
> 
> 1 central log-collecting server.syslog-ng 
> 
> 2 client: syslog sending logs to central log-collecting server.
> 
>  
> 
> And I have two central log-collecting servers which is logging for
> different clients,I call them A and B.
> 
> configuration
> 
> 1 The A ` configuration as follows: 
> 
> options { use_dns(no); create_dirs(yes);ts_format(iso); }; 
> 
> source src { udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514)); };
> 
>  
> 
> filter f_kern { facility(kern); };
> 
> filter f_authpriv { facility(auth,authpriv); };
> 
> filter f_mail { facility(mail); };
> 
> filter f_cron { facility(cron); };
> 
> filter f_boot { facility(local7); };
> 
> filter f_spooler { facility(uucp, news) and level(crit..emerg); };
> 
> filter f_messages { level(info..emerg) and not facility(authpriv,
> cron, mail); };
> 
>  
> 
> destination kern
> { file("/home/syslog-ng/$YEAR/$HOST/kernel-$MONTH"); };
> 
> destination authpriv
> { file("/home/syslog-ng/$YEAR/$HOST/secure-$MONTH"); };
> 
> destination mail
> { file("/home/syslog-ng/$YEAR/$HOST/maillog-$MONTH"); };
> 
> destination cron { file("/home/syslog-ng/$YEAR/$HOST/cron-$MONTH"); };
> 
> destination boot
> { file("/home/syslog-ng/$YEAR/$HOST/boot.log-$MONTH"); };
> 
> destination spooler
> { file("/home/syslog-ng/$YEAR/$HOST/spooler-$MONTH"); };
> 
> destination messages
> { file("/home/syslog-ng/$YEAR/$HOST/messages-$MONTH"); };
> 
>  
> 
> log { source(src); filter(f_kern); destination(kern); };
> 
> log { source(src); filter(f_authpriv); destination(authpriv); };
> 
> log { source(src); filter(f_mail); destination(mail); };
> 
> log { source(src); filter(f_cron); destination(cron); };
> 
> log { source(src); filter(f_boot); destination(boot); };
> 
> log { source(src); filter(f_spooler); destination(spooler); };
> 
> log { source(src); filter(f_messages); destination(messages); };
> 
> 2 The B` configuration as follows: 
> 
> source src { unix-stream("/dev/log");internal();udp(ip(0.0.0.0)
> port(514)); };
> 
> destination dsearch { file("/home/work/syslog-ng/log/$HOST"); };
> 
> log { source(src); destination(dsearch); };
> 
> QUESTIONS: 
> 
> A server log files:                         ps aux
> 
>   /home/syslog-ng/2007/ 10.11.100.3 /   messages         %MEM   VSZ
>     RSS
> 
>  965 directories    3860              6.8       567772   562524
> 
> B server log files:                        ps aux
> 
>  /home/work/syslog-ng/log/10.12.55.6                       % MEM
> VSZ      RSS
> 
>                           4482                           0.0     2232
>     1276
> 
> I think the MEM VSZ and RSS usage is related to the logfile numbers, A
> server has fewer logfiles than B server, while   A server  has higher
> usages of MEM VSZ and RSS than B server,
> 
> I don`t know why ?

Hmm... it it a genuine leak, I mean does it continously grow, or it
stays at this limit and gets decreased during off-peak time?

In syslog-ng every destination file has its own buffer, though that's
allocated on-demand, the maximum size can be specified using
log_fifo_size(), though the minimum value is 1000 log messages.

1000 messages, 300 bytes on average is about 300kB maximum memory usage
per file. How many messages are processed by syslog-ng here? Is each
file receiving the same amount of messages?

-- 
Bazsi

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