Bug 22196

Summary:	/sbin/minilogd leaks memory, 160M in 12 hours
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Jaroslaw Sosnicki <slavko>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	1.0	CC:	rvokal, slavko
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Description Jaroslaw Sosnicki 2000-12-13 02:34:46 UTC

I am running Linux ns1 2.4.0-0.43.4smp #1 SMP Fri Dec 8 13:24:16 EST 2000
i686 unknown

One of the componens of  initscripts-5.52-1 leaks memory, 160M in 12 hours.

I did take peek at the sourcecode found missing calls to memory free
function.

There is no easy way to turn minilogd off short of  renaming/removing
/sbin/minilogd file

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-12-13 04:19:02 UTC

Something went horribly horribly wrong and syslogd didn't start
correctly on your machine.

It's technically not leaking; it's just storing all the system
log messages until syslogd starts.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-01-29 20:42:55 UTC

initscripts-5.60-1 will have an upper bound on how much memory minilogd
will use, even though it's not technically a bug.