Hi Jeff, How do the "excessive logs" look like? Are they garbage, or duplicates of "normal" logs?
Best regards, Radu 2012/2/20 Jeff Poling <jpol...@moody.edu> > I am kind of at the end of my rope on this one, so I thought I would ask > the community. I don't have a lot of information, but last week we had an > incident on our rsyslog collector system. Essentially, the disk space in > the file system where we keep the log files filled up. The rsyslog spool > area filled up as well. What seemed to cause this were several systems > that began logging excessively - 30+ GB log files within minutes. > > I was able to add some disk space and stop rsyslog on systems that were > problematic; however, I simply cannot tell why the incident happened. > > Has anyone seen this type of behavior with rsyslog? On our collector > system we are running v. 5.8.5. We are still migrating our client systems > to 5.8.5 so most of them are still at 5.4.0 of rsyslog. > > Any experiences or insight is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > Jeffrey Poling > System Administrator | Information Systems > Moody Bible Institute > 820 N. LaSalle Blvd., Chicago, IL 60610 > 312-329-8968 > www.moodyministries.net<http://www.moodyministries.net> > From the Word. To Life. > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/
