[syslog-ng] Memory leak on SIGHUP on 3.0.1 and up

Simon Gauthier gauthier.simon at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 20:21:33 CET 2011


Hi,

the last snapshot you provided is leaking about 1% of the memory per
minutes (2Gig on the machine). I use the same setup.

It is leaking a lot faster than 3.0.1.

Thanks

Simon Gauthier

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Gergely Nagy <algernon at balabit.hu> wrote:

> Simon Gauthier <gauthier.simon at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi, I am using syslog-ng 3.01 and I experience memory leak on SIGHUP.
> This
> > has been seen on a standard Fedora 10 system with syslog-ng 3.0.1 to
> > 3.0.10. the same test leak also with 3.3.1.
> >
> > My syslog-ng.conf file has no rules in it.
> >
> > A simple bash script sending a SIGHUP to the syslog-ng process will leak
> > memory at a fast face.
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > while true; do
> >     date
> >          # $1 is syslog-ng pid
> >          sudo /usr/bin/kill -1 $1
> >         done
> >
> > Any idea about, that?
>
> Not sure about anything before 3.3, but there have been numerous leak
> fixes post 3.3.1.
>
> Could you perhaps try a recent git snapshot?
>
> Or, if you prefer make dist tarballs (so you only need to ./configure &&
> make && make install, pretty much), then the following address has a git
> snapshot (built around every midnight, but I triggered a rebuild a
> couple of hours ago):
>
> http://packages.madhouse-project.org/syslog-ng/3.3/syslog-ng-3.3-HEAD.tar.gz
>
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