[syslog-ng] syslog-ng consumes a lot of cpu

[Gergely Nagy]

"C. L. Martinez" <carlopmart at gmail.com> writes:

>>> Any idea why??
>>
>> Changing destination to a file instead of a pipe, all works as expected:
>>
>> load averages:  0.16,  0.87,  1.25
>> 25 processes: 24 idle, 1 on processor
>> CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.4% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.6% idle
>> Memory: Real: 29M/363M act/tot Free: 2649M Cache: 304M Swap: 0K/3067M
>>
>>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE     WAIT      TIME    CPU COMMAND
>> 11308 root       2    0 1440K 3712K sleep     kqread    0:01  0.05% syslog-ng
>
> Where can be the problem when pipe is used??

Can you run a strace or truss on it? Once when using pipe(), and another
one when using file()?

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