[syslog-ng] Do stats cause memory leak

[Fekete, Róbert]

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 10139760 ?   Ssl  Apr24 41581:22
>> /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
>>
>> That is a 12GB footprint after 1 month of uptime.
>>
>> Evan.
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