I am using a Linux box as a syslog server. It is a Dell Poweredge 2400 running Redhat 7.1. I am running syslogd -r and logging the PIX firewall in debug mode. The resulting files are quite large (it's what my boss wants). About 350 meg per day. The memory useage grows by about 20k with each top update. None of the processes grow in memory usage. If I turn logging off on the PIX the growing memory useage stops. And when I turn logging back on the memory useage starts growing again. Does anybody have any ideas as to how to stop this memory leak?
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Linux memory leak
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Hi there,
I've had the same problem and have been frustrating myself to figure it out. I recently learned that Linux stores a lot of memory in caches and buffers, that the consumption of most of the memory is a natural thing. Check this URL out for more info:
Regards,
Andrew
I've had the same problem and have been frustrating myself to figure it out. I recently learned that Linux stores a lot of memory in caches and buffers, that the consumption of most of the memory is a natural thing. Check this URL out for more info:
Regards,
Andrew
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