[rsyslog] High cpu usage - rsyslog 5.4.0.

[Ralph Crongeyer]

It's confirmed!

I've been running for over an hour and a half now and:
load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.02

Looks good so far.

Let me know if you guys (Michael, Rainer) want me to run in debug mode 
without the lines commented out to see if I can catch the problem for 
more troubleshooting.

Thanks,
Ralph

Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
> 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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