Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:13:55
Message-Id: 58965d8a0903231413hb59bfbdmb2fc56f51e19c275@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard) by Steve
1 On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Steve <gentoo_sjh@×××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > Steve wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Do others get this behaviour - is this a bug in syslog-ng?
5 >
6 > Sorry for the multiple posts... a slight error on my part. The sshguard
7 > process wasn't running - a /bin/sh process trying to spawn it was running
8 > (there was no link from /usr/local... to the binary) and when the binary
9 > failed to execute - syslog-ng got itself into a tiz. Everything seems to
10 > work fine when I correct the path to the program.
11 >
12 > Problem solved - but, I guess, this is a flaw in syslog-ng... I'd have hoped
13 > it would generate an error message rather than behave as it did.
14
15 I had a possibly similar problem a while back with syslog-ng going
16 crazy when a certain daemon would crash (in my case it filled up the
17 log wit about 60 gigabytes of the same thing repeated over and over,
18 in addition to using massive CPU%). I switched to metalog and haven't
19 had any problems since.