[syslog-ng] Known memory leak issues in 3.3.4?

Marvin Nipper Marvin.Nipper at stream.com
Thu Mar 22 15:35:10 CET 2012


And just like "magic", the universe looks normal again.....

THANKS SO MUCH for the SUPER QUICK response.  That seems to be the exact fix that I needed.  Barring any other anomalies, it looks like I may have finally managed to make my way out of the 3.0.5 world.

Have a great week!

-----Original Message-----
From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Peter Czanik
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:56 AM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Known memory leak issues in 3.3.4?

Hello,

On 03/22/2012 02:46 PM, Jakub Jankowski wrote:
> On Thursday 22 of March 2012, Marvin Nipper wrote:
>> After considerable effort, I managed to get 3.3.4 built (using gcc 4.4.2,
>> along with glib 2.29.92 and the requisite eventlog 0.2.12).  The problem
>> is that the resulting syslog-ng component grows continuously (at an
>> alarming rate).  Whereas my 3.0.5 syslog-ng process starts out running in
>> just under 3MB, and then stabilizes at about 3.3MB, the 3.3.4 version
>> starts out small, and then at the point where I killed it (about 2 hours
>> after starting it), it had already grown to 277MB.
> I know at least about one memory leak that has been once fixed, but then
> reintroduced between 3.3.2 and 3.3.3, and I think is present since then.
> I've mentioned it on this list in February:
> https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2012-February/018334.html
>
> It would be really nice if developers could take a look at the code again. :)
Check this: https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=160 The 
mentioned patch is available at 
http://git.balabit.hu/?p=bazsi/syslog-ng-3.3.git;a=commit;h=3c14a264ab4c76b9372b1288d6808d19ec4d0aed
Bye,

-- 
Peter Czanik (CzP)<czanik at balabit.hu>
BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/


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