[syslog-ng] Syslog-NG error msg : out of memory

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 15:30 -0500, Henry Xu wrote:
> Any one can update on this?
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> Thanks.
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> From: Henry Xu [mailto:bxu at italkbb.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 13:03
> To: 'syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu'
> Subject: Syslog-NG error msg : out of memory
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> Hi All,
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> Today I got monitoring alarms about Syslog-NG. I checked log and found
> the following errors:
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> Sep  6 21:35:35 host1 1:manager[db] [353-1] ERROR:  out of memory
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> Sep  6 21:35:35 host1 1:manager[db] [353-2] DETAIL:  Failed on request
> of size 131071998.
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> Sep  6 21:35:35 host1 1:manager[db] [354-1] ERROR:  out of memory
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> Sep  6 21:35:35 host1 1:manager[db] [354-2] DETAIL:  Failed on request
> of size 131071998.
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> Sep  6 21:35:35 host1 1:manager[db] [355-1] ERROR:  out of memory
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> Sep  6 21:35:35 host1 1:manager[db] [355-2] DETAIL:  Failed on request
> of size 131071998.
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> Sep  6 21:35:35 host1 1:manager[db] [356-1] ERROR:  out of memory
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> Sep  6 21:35:35 host1 1:manager[db] [356-2] DETAIL:  Failed on request
> of size 131071998.
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> Sep  6 21:35:35 host1 1:manager[db] [357-1] ERROR:  out of memory
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> Sep  6 21:35:35 host1 1:manager[db] [357-2] DETAIL:  Failed on request
> of size 131071998.
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> Is this related to the memory leak?
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> Does someone have the same experience and whether have a way to avoid
> this?
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These are not syslog-ng messages, but rather it belongs to a different
application whose logs are processed by syslog-ng.

Are you sure it is syslog-ng that is leaking?


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Bazsi