[ILUG] Massive syslogd

From: Kenn Humborg (kenn at domain bluetree.ie)
Date: Wed 22 Sep 1999 - 10:56:58 IST


Has anyone noticed syslogd getting very large on
RH6?

# ps avx
  PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND
  239 ? S 5:59 645 23 11440 1008 3.2 syslogd -m 0 -r

That's 11MB of data. For a logger daemon? On my RH4.2 box,
it's only 800k of data.

It's receiving syslog message from two other machines.

# rpm -qf `which syslogd`
sysklogd-1.3.31-6
#

Later,
Kenn



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