[syslog-ng] high memory usage (swapping)

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:11 +0100, Otto Berger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today i got a weird cenario: i rebooted our syslog-ng server and forgot
> to start the syslog-ng daemon. So far so (not) good.
> 
> One of our webservers which sends his logs via UDP to the syslog-server
> became suddenly very slow. It is reproducable: whenever i stop the
> central syslog-server the sender-servers syslog-ng-process gets a very
> high memory usage (4GB!) within seconds... The log-traffic on this
> server is about 30MB/day...
> 
> UDP is a connection-less protocol isnt? ;)

Sorry, for the delay, I'm trying to look into this next, but I have
already received a SIGWIFE :)

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Bazsi