Memory usage in ossec-csyslogd

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Joe Gedeon

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Nov 1, 2011, 10:40:17 AM11/1/11

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Has anyone else experienced excessive usage with the ossec-csyslogd
process? This process continually consumes memory without releasing
it. To the point of making the system unresponsive.

10105 ossecm 20 0 6050m 4.3g 428 S 0 55.5 46:26.43 ossec-csyslogd

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Jorge Armando Medina

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Nov 9, 2011, 11:32:53 AM11/9/11

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On 11/01/2011 08:40 AM, Joe Gedeon wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced excessive usage with the ossec-csyslogd
> process? This process continually consumes memory without releasing
> it. To the point of making the system unresponsive.
>
> 10105 ossecm 20 0 6050m 4.3g 428 S 0 55.5 46:26.43 ossec-csyslogd
>

I have the same problem, today I noticed that my system was using lots
of memory and swap, here the output:

9340 ossecm 20 0 2685M 885M 292 S 0.0 22.9 16:01.53
/opt/ossec/bin/ossec-csyslogd

I restarted ossec and memory and swap was released:

24953 root 20 0 4516 824 440 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.45
/opt/ossec/bin/ossec-syscheckd

What could be the cause of the problem, I can provide more info if
requested.

Best regards.

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