[rsyslog] 4.4.2 leaks: another log
Mr. Demeanour
mrdemeanour at jackpot.uk.net
Tue Nov 10 11:29:41 CET 2009
Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> It just occurred to me that you may be seeing an anomaly in clib's
> malloc subsystem. I fought with this in early summer, but somehow
> have not mentioned it in the change log. The change itself was done
> on June, 22nd 2009. I have just checked, 4.4.2 does not have this
> code. I noticed that while there were some reports in the valgrind
> log, they were not large enough to explain what you saw.
>
> The libc malloc issue was discussed on the mailing list, and this
> here is a link to a later wrap-up type of message:
>
> http://lists.adiscon.net/pipermail/rsyslog/2009-June/002372.html
>
> So my suggestion is to move to v4-stable and see if the problem
> persists there (obviously, contrary to what I said, v5 would have
> fixed it in that case as well - so never trust a dev... ;)).
OK.
I have to be somewhere else in half an hour, so I'll return to this later.
--
Jack.
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