[syslog-ng] Do stats cause memory leak

[Scheidler, Balázs]

My guess that it is related to #1517 instead, albeit stats counters were
worked on recently. If #1517 does not fix this, please report it again.


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Bazsi

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Fekete, Róbert <robert.fekete at balabit.com>
wrote:

> There is also this issue that might be related (don't know if it is solved
> by the above PR or not): https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/issues/1494
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/pull/1505 seems to address memory
>> problems. If you use my git head packages, I can add this patch for you and
>> see if it resolves your problems.
>>
>> Bye,
>>
>> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
>> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
>> https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/
>> https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>>
>> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Evan Rempel <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> We are running git head download post 3.9.1 and the memory footprint
>>> seems to continually grow.
>>>
>>> Looking at the statistics for queued messages I found none, but
>>> discovered that we have nearly 22,000
>>> statistic sets for a total of 68195 tracked statistics.
>>> % /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng-ctl stats | wc -l
>>> 68195
>>>
>>> It it possible that all of these statistics take up a non-trivial amount
>>> of RAM?
>>>
>>> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
>>> root      1489 79.2 61.5 12134140 <(1)%20213%204140> 10139760
>>> <(1)%20013%209760> ?   Ssl  Apr24 41581:22 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
>>>
>>> That is a 12GB footprint after 1 month of uptime.
>>>
>>> Evan.
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