[syslog-ng] Memory leaks...?

[Alexander Clouter]

Hi,

Eiji Inatsu <le.petit.planet at gmail.com> [20080205 12:23:28 +0900]:
>
> Well, can you show me "options" line in syslog-ngd.conf?
>
> Mine is very simple as follows.
>   options {create_dirs(yes); use_fqdn(yes); dir_owner(syslog-ng); dir_perm(0750); owner(syslog-ng); perm(0740);};
> 
Mine really is just the one that came with the Debian package:

  options {
    chain_hostnames(1);
    time_reopen(10);
    time_reap(360);
    log_fifo_size(2048);
    create_dirs(yes);
    group(adm);
    perm(0640);
    dir_perm(0755);
    use_dns(no);
    stats_freq(0);
  };

Cheers

Alex

> On Feb 4, 2008 5:53 PM, Alexander Clouter <ac56 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Strange, I was just chatting about this with my colleague a minute ago and
> > turned to look at the mail I received and here is your email...spooky.
> >
> > Eiji Inatsu <le.petit.planet at gmail.com> [20080204 12:00:37 +0900]:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > and finally physical memory and swap spaces are exhausted.
> > > Is this a memory leak or not?
> > >
> > > My version
> > > # /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -V
> > > syslog-ng 2.0.2
> > > My H/W and OS
> > > Solaris 10, sparc 64
> > >
> > > This syslog-ng is running about 2 or 3 days until restarted.
> > > This host is central loghost and receives about 40GB data per day.
> > >
> > Up to about a two weeks ago (for six months) syslog-ng started off with
> > 2MB
> > of RAM usage and I had about two weeks before I had to restart it as it
> > creeped up to 2GB.
> >
> > We were running 2.0.5 however when I moved to 2.0.7 the problem
> > disappeared.
> >
> > I guess I would recommend you up to a newer version, there have been a lot
> > of
> > bug fixes since 2.0.2 and you should move on :)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Alex
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