rsyslogd suddenly went crazy (120% cpu)

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:10:08 +0200
Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am running Fedora 19 + updates-testing and suddenly rsyslogd went
> crazy, and is now consuming constantly 120% cpu (and is also
> constantly expanding allocated memory).
> I first thought it could have something to do with updates I've
> applied recently, so I rolled back to an older btrfs-snapshot - which
> however didn't improve the situation.
> 
> I've recorded some stack-traces: http://pastebin.com/ikwC3h4g
> 
> When executing "tail -f /var/log/messages" I get the same messages
> from 16. and 17. May over and over again.
> 
> Any ideas what could cause these problems?
> 
> Thank you in advance, Clemens

http://www.happyassassin.net/2013/06/14/fedora-1920-logfile-explosions/

kevin
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