[rsyslog] High cpu usage - rsyslog 5.4.0.

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Ok,
I stoped rsyslog apt-get removed the 5.3.7 package, installed the 5.4.0 
package:

root at logs:/opt# aptitude show rsyslog
Package: rsyslog
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 5.4.0-1
Priority: extra
Section: extra
Maintainer: ralph at crongeyer.com
Uncompressed Size: 3047k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), lsb-base (>= 3.2-14)
Description: enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

commented out the lines from rsyslog.conf:
#daemon.*;mail.*;\
#       news.err;\
#       *.=debug;*.=info;\
#       *.=notice;*.=warn       |/dev/xconsole


and restarted rsyslog:
root at logs:/opt# /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart
Stopping enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.
Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.

I'll get back to you in about an hour.

Thanks,
Ralph

Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2010/3/28 Ralph Crongeyer <ralph at crongeyer.com>:
>   
>> I'm running Debian Lenny on both machines.
>>     
>
>   
>> Is anyone else seeing high cpu loads with 5.4.0?
>>
>>     
>
> I can confirm his (on Debian unstable) and already notified Rainer
> about this particular issue.
> Some preliminary testing here seems to indicate it's an issue with pipes.
>
> When I removed
> daemon.*;mail.*;\
>  news.err;\
>  *.=debug;*.=info;\
>  *.=notice;*.=warn      |/dev/xconsole
>
> from my rsyslog.conf, I could no longer reproduce the problem.
>
> Would be interesting to know, if you can confirm this.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>   


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