I'm happy to upload this fix to Trusty and Utopic but we will need a test case in the bug description so that the fix can be verified. Could somebody please provide one following the example at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates? Thanks!
** Changed in: rsyslog (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: rsyslog (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray (brian-murray) ** Also affects: rsyslog (Ubuntu Utopic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: rsyslog (Ubuntu Trusty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: rsyslog (Ubuntu Trusty) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: rsyslog (Ubuntu Utopic) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: rsyslog (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: rsyslog (Ubuntu Utopic) Status: New => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to rsyslog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1366829 Title: 7.4.4-1ubuntu2.1 makes rsyslogd to take all the CPU in OpenVZ Status in rsyslog package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in rsyslog source package in Trusty: Triaged Status in rsyslog source package in Utopic: Triaged Bug description: After updating rsyslog from 7.4.4-1ubuntu2 to 7.4.4-1ubuntu2.1 the rsyslogd process started to take all the CPU on my machine. The modification made by this release is described in #1274444, it is the activation of KLogPermitNonKernelFacility option. I don't know exactly the effect of this option but it seems to have a permanent effect : even after downgrading the package or manually removing the option from /etc/rsyslog.conf the issue remains. My syslog is full of : Sep 8 10:28:40 sentry rsyslogd: imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor Sep 8 10:28:40 sentry rsyslogd: message repeated 498 times: [imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor] Sep 8 10:28:46 sentry rsyslogd-2177: rsyslogd[internal_messages]: 519517 messages lost due to rate-limiting I guess this is what causes the CPU load. I am running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS in an OpenVZ container on Proxmox 3.2. The kernel is 2.6.32-28-pve --- ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3 Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: rsyslog 7.4.4-1ubuntu2.1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 Tags: trusty Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-pve x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: _MarkForUpload: True To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/1366829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp