FS#12493 - the program minilogd which in the package initscripts may cause memory leak

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by kevin lei (kevinlei) - Thursday, 18 December 2008, 10:54 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 11:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
if start the PC while all syslog service was disabled, minilogd will executed and running forever and record many logs increasely, until there is no more free memory space and the system crashed.

Additional info:
initscripts 2008.09-2

Steps to reproduce:
disable any service which provides syslog, and reboot the computer, minilogd will use more and more memory.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Monday, 26 January 2009, 11:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 18 December 2008, 21:08 GMT
This is not a memory leak, it is intended behavior. minilogd holds all logs lines until some syslogger snages the resources. It appears to max out at 200000 log lines. Line sizes appear to be 8192 bytes (8k). So yeah, looks like it maxes out at a stupidly obscene value of about 1.5 GB

I'll fiddle with the maxes here...
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 23 December 2008, 22:48 GMT
Committed. Set maximum lines to 10000
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=initscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=fa4f2f14870500eeab3233da07647a7c2c5e1648
Comment by kevin lei (kevinlei) - Wednesday, 24 December 2008, 03:48 GMT
Thanks, I will test this good patch.

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