I forgot to mention that I’m running rsyslog 7.4.6:

# rpm -q rsyslog
rsyslog-7.4.6-1.el6.x86_64



On Nov 6, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Leggett, Torrance I. <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a central logging server that accepts messages and writes them out - 
> <year>/<month>/<host>. However, recently I’ve had a problem where the server 
> stops writing out virtually all such messages and the main message queue 
> fills and starts writing to the disk asssisted queue. Once it starts doing 
> this, the DA queue only grows until it hits the max size or the disk fills. 
> Restarting doesn’t seem to help unless I remove all the files in the DA spool 
> directory. Below is the server portion of the config. If you need more 
> configs or debugging, just let me know what. I’m relatively new to debugging 
> rsyslog issues.
> 
> # cat 99-server.conf 
> # Switch to server ruleset
> $RuleSet server
> 
> $MainMsgQueueFileName mainqueue         # unique name prefix for spool files
> $MainMsgQueueType LinkedList            # main queue should be a dynamic list 
> in memory
> $MainMsgQueueSize 100000                # increase the queue size to handle 
> the message traffic
> $MainMsgQueueHighWatermark 80000        # increase the high water mark to 
> write messages to disk
> $MainMsgQueueLowWatermark 20000         # increase the low water mark to stop 
> writing to disk
> $MainMsgQueueMaxDiskSpace 1g            # 1gb disk space limit
> $MainMsgQueueSaveOnShutdown off         # save messages to disk on shutdown
> $MainMsgQueueWorkerThreads 5            # spawn up to 5 threads for queue 
> processing
> $MaxMessageSize 8k                      # handle larger messages if needed
> $RepeatedMsgReduction off               # log all messages as they come
> 
> # Load UDP module
> $ModLoad imudp
> $InputUDPServerBindRuleset server
> $UDPServerRun 514
> 
> # Load TCP module
> $ModLoad imtcp
> $InputTCPServerBindRuleset server
> $InputTCPServerRun 514
> 
> # Load RELP module
> $ModLoad imrelp
> $InputRELPServerBindRuleset server
> $InputRELPServerRun 20514
> 
> # Send logs to logstash for indexing
> *.* @@127.0.0.1:5544;RSYSLOG_TraditionalForwardFormat
> 
> # Templates
> $Template auditFormat,"%MSG%\n"
> $Template radiusFormat,"%MSG%\n"
> $Template tsmFormat,"%MSG%\n"
> $Template dynAuditLog,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/audit.log"
> $Template dynAuthLog,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/secure"
> $Template dynCronLog,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/cron.log"
> $Template 
> dynDaemonLog,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/daemon.log"
> $Template dynDebug,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/debug"
> $Template 
> dynHttpAccess,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/http_access.log"
> $Template 
> dynHttpError,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/http_error.log"
> $Template dynKernLog,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/kern.log"
> $Template dynMailLog,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/mail.log"
> $Template 
> dynPuppetAgent,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/puppet-agent.log"
> $Template 
> dynPuppetMaster,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/puppet-master.log"
> $Template 
> dynRadiusLog,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/radius.log"
> $Template dynSyslog,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/messages"
> $Template dynTsmInfo,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/dsmcmd.log"
> $Template 
> dynTsmError,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/dsmerror.log"
> $Template dynUserLog,"/var/log/remotes/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%HOSTNAME%/user.log"
> 
> # First capture auditd messages from remotes
> #
> if $programname == 'auditd' and $syslogfacility-text == 'local6' then 
> ?dynAuditLog;auditFormat
> 
> # Next capture RADIUS messages from remotes
> #
> if $programname == 'radiusd' and $syslogfacility-text == 'local6' then 
> ?dynRadiusLog;radiusFormat
> 
> # Next handle any apache logs and remove them from the stream
> #
> if $programname == 'httpd' and $syslogfacility-text == 'local6' then {
>    ?dynHttpAccess
>    stop
> }
> if $programname == 'httpd' and $syslogfacility-text == 'local7' then {
>    ?dynHttpError
>    stop
> }
> 
> # Next handle any nginx logs and remove them from the stream
> #
> if $programname == 'nginx' and $syslogfacility-text == 'local6' then {
>    ?dynHttpAccess
>    stop
> }
> if $programname == 'nginx' and $syslogfacility-text == 'local7' then {
>    ?dynHttpError
>    stop
> }
> 
> # Next handle any puppet logs and remove them from the stream
> #
> if $programname == 'puppet-agent' then {
>    ?dynPuppetAgent
>    stop
> }
> if $programname == 'puppet-master' then {
>    ?dynPuppetMaster
>    stop
> }
> 
> # Next handle any TSM logs and remove them from the stream
> #
> if $programname == 'dsmc' and $syslogfacility-text == 'local3' and 
> $syslogseverity-text == 'info' then ?dynTsmInfo;tsmFormat
> if $programname == 'dsmserv' and $syslogfacility-text == 'local3'  and 
> $syslogseverity-text == 'err' then ?dynTsmError;tsmFormat
> 
> # Rules
> auth,authpriv.*         ?dynAuthLog
> *.*;\
> mail.none;\
> cron.none               -?dynSyslog
> cron.*                  ?dynCronLog
> daemon.*                -?dynDaemonLog
> kern.*                  -?dynKernLog
> mail.*                  -?dynMailLog
> user.*                  -?dynUserLog
> 
> # Switch back to default ruleset
> $RuleSet RSYSLOG_DefaultRuleset
> 

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