I wonder if this is a related issue: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738686
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #738686 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738686 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to rsyslog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1366829 Title: Updating to rsyslog - 7.4.4-1ubuntu2.1 makes rsyslogd to take all the CPU Status in “rsyslog” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After updating rsyslog from 7.4.4-1ubuntu2 to 7.4.4-1ubuntu2.1 the rsyslogd process started to take all the CPU on my machine. The modification made by this release is described in #1274444, it is the activation of KLogPermitNonKernelFacility option. I don't know exactly of is the effect of this option but it seems to have a permanent effect : even after downgrading the package or manually removing the option from /etc/rsyslog.conf the issue remains. My syslog is full of : Sep 8 10:28:40 sentry rsyslogd: imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor Sep 8 10:28:40 sentry rsyslogd: message repeated 498 times: [imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor] Sep 8 10:28:46 sentry rsyslogd-2177: rsyslogd[internal_messages]: 519517 messages lost due to rate-limiting I guess this is what causes the CPU load. I am running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS in an OpenVZ container on Proxmox 3.2. The kernel is 2.6.32-28-pve To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/1366829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
