[syslog-ng] syslog-ng v3.3.4 on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS x_64 has a memory leak

[Clayton Dukes]

Will do - but is there any effort to replace the bad version in the Ubuntu
repo's?
I only ask for my other users who may not know to add another deb source :-)


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Clayton Dukes
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Gergely Nagy <algernon at balabit.hu> wrote:

> Sandor Geller <Sandor.Geller at morganstanley.com> writes:
>
> > Quiting from the NEWS file of 3.3.5:
> >
> >         Bugfixes:
> >         =========
> >         * Fixed a significant memory leak that occurred when the receiver
> >           side of a syslog connection is slower than syslog-ng. The
> message
> >           which we got EAGAIN for got leaked.
> >
> >         * Fixed another memory leak that caused the complete queue for
> >           socket based destination drivers to be leaked at reload time.
> >
> >         * Fixed a memory leak related to handling TLS enabled
> connections.
> >           As connections come and go the TLS context wasn't freed.
> >
> >         * Fixed a small memory leak that occurred when worker threads
> exit
> >           (and later start again).
> >
> > Could you upgrade to a newer version?
>
> I would recommend upgrading too. The 3.3.4 in 12.04 is unfortunately a
> very bad version. My repository[1] has the latest 3.3.x (3.3.8 at the
> moment, soon to become 3.3.9) packaged for pretty much all Ubuntu
> versions, 12.04 LTS included.
>
> All you need is to add the following line to sources.list:
>
> deb       http://packages.madhouse-project.org/ubuntu   12.04
> syslog-ng-3.3
>
> And import the key I signed the repo with:
>
>  curl https://packages.madhouse-project.org/debian/archive-key.txt | sudo
> apt-key add -
>
>
>  [1]: http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/projects/debian/
>
> --
> |8]
>
>
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