[syslog-ng] rsyslog client produces "Error processing log message"

[Gergely Nagy]

Andreas Heinlein <aheinlein at gmx.com> writes:

xx>> > we have a centralised log server running syslog-ng 3.1 OSE on Debian 
>> > 6.0. On the client side, we were using syslog-ng but now I'd like to use 
>> > rsyslog instead (for several reasons).
>> 
>> Independently of the issue below, I'd love to hear the reasons (either
>> on-list, or in private).
>
> The main reason is that syslog-ng randomly goes to 100% CPU on the clients
> (Ubuntu 12.04, previously we used 10.04 and syslog-ng which worked just fine),
> and I've been trying for several days now to figure out why. So I've decided to
> try and switch to rsyslog.

I see. Using the default syslog-ng that ships with 12.04 (3.3.4+patches,
as far as I remember) or 3.3.6+? I'd love to be able to fix the spinning
issue, and perhaps I can do that faster than switching to rsyslog would
be >;)

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