[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.2.2 OSE takes 100% CPU after source files get truncated.

Gergely Nagy algernon at balabit.hu
Wed Feb 2 15:42:56 CET 2011


On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 17:29 +0300, Mailing Lists wrote:
> Not sure if syslog-ng has a bug tracker, but I couldn't find one
> anyway, so posting this here.

We have a bugzilla at http://bugzilla.balabit.com/ (although I agree, it
could be more visibly advertised that it exists), for future reference.

> Here is the problem: I have source file that is a log file that is
> been truncated periodically (by log rotate).
> When the truncation happens syslog-ng process starts taking 100% CPU,
> and not doing any logging. This behavior remains until source file
> receives a write.

This sounds very, very familiar to me.

May I ask what platform this is on (OS, architecture, etc)?

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