Arch Linux

Description: minilogd always eat memory when buflines>=MAX_BUF_LINES. This is because of the line for reserving memory for "*message" in calloc() @ runDaemon()

Then from my point of view (if no syslogd startup in the system) maybe these solutions:

1) close the /dev/log, then no more conections are accepted, but always check if the /dev/log "times" have been changed, to dump buffer to it.

2) Accept conections like now, but don't reserve memory with calloc() every time for "*message" buffer, so overwrite the message. (only need one calloc() when buflines>=MAX_BUF_LINES, and free() on exit).

3) Another more convenient approach.

For the option the programs thta uses logger functions:
1) see the system as if no logger daemon was loaded (calls to logger funtions returns errors)
2) will log errors, but will be silently ignored.
3) ...


Additional info:
initscripts-2009-NN
Without starting syslog-ng.


NOTE: I don't create a patch for this, leaving open the possibility to implement more you see fit.