[syslog-ng] syslog-ng uses 100% cpu

Yakup Kaya yakup at labrisnetworks.com
Thu Apr 17 08:29:39 CEST 2014


Thank you very much Gergely.

It seems like installing 3.5.4.1-1 solved the problem.

Have a nice day

On 04/15/2014 01:04 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Yakup Kaya <yakup at labrisnetworks.com> writes:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> My problem is syslog-ng is using 100% CPU. When I trace the process
>> for about 1 minute I get output as follows. As you can see epoll_wait
>> and clock_gettime system calls are causing the problem. My syslog-ng
>> version is 3.3.4. In the older versions I did not have such problems
>> (e.g. 2.0.9). I would like to ask what exactly these system calls are
>> used for and is there a configuration option or parameter to disable
>> these calls or tune them?
> I would strongly recommend upgrading to a newer version of syslog-ng, as
> there have been numerous fixes since 3.3.4 that could possibly fix your
> issue too.
>
> If you're using Debian or Ubuntu (by using 3.3.4 which is in Ubuntu
> Precise and Debian Wheezy, I assume you do), you can find updated
> packages at http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/projects/debian/
>

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