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rsyslog package

  1. Bug #1366829
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1366829

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Siri Vias Singh Khalsa (sirivias) wrote : Re: Updating to rsyslog - 7.4.4-1ubuntu2.1 makes rsyslogd to take all the CPU

I saw the same issue rolling out a new VM using 14.04.1
I was able to resolve the issue by commenting out this line in rsyslog.conf:

#$ModLoad imklog # provides kernel logging support

log example: (repeated millions of times)

Sep 17 00:15:43 mi2 rsyslogd: message repeated 498 times: [imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor]
Sep 17 00:15:49 mi2 rsyslogd-2177: rsyslogd[internal_messages]: 4572709 messages lost due to rate-limiting
Sep 17 00:15:49 mi2 rsyslogd: imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor
Sep 17 00:15:49 mi2 rsyslogd: message repeated 498 times: [imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor]
Sep 17 00:15:55 mi2 rsyslogd-2177: rsyslogd[internal_messages]: 4692976 messages lost due to rate-limiting
Sep 17 00:15:55 mi2 rsyslogd: imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor