Bug ID 746704: Syslog-ng Memory Leak

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7

Fixed In:
15.0.0, 14.1.2.8, 13.1.3.5

Opened: Oct 12, 2018

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

After a long uptime (almost a year) syslog-ng had consumed 1.1G of virtual memory on BIG-IP.

Impact

Minimal. This is a leak of virtual memory. If syslog-ng does not read or write to this memory it will not be consume physical memory.

Conditions

Memory leak when syslog-ng handles continuous SIGHUP signals.

Workaround

Run this command once a month: service syslog-ng restart

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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