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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Problem with auditd/SnareLinux on RHEL 5.3 - auditd glomming memory
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:54:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902191654.40562.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16729F04227D342863BEEB34D4A3C5C85E3D3@EMAIL02.pnl.gov>

On Thursday 19 February 2009 04:30:10 pm Smith, Gary R wrote:
> When the setting for the output log format is set to "NOLOG" (log_format
> = NOLOG in auditd.conf) it appears that audit events are getting stacked
> up in the internal message queue (audit_reply_list) and are not removed
> from the stack after being written to the audit dispatcher daemon. The
> result is the stack grows without end.
>
> I have the following potential fix for audit version 1.7.11:

This looks like a really good hint at what's going on. I'll look into this 
deeper and either apply this patch or address the same problem another way in 
the next release.

Thanks,
-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-19 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-04 22:15 Problem with auditd/SnareLinux on RHEL 5.3 - auditd glomming memory Smith, Gary R
2009-02-05  2:14 ` Lucas C. Villa Real
2009-02-05 16:32   ` Steve Grubb
2009-02-19 21:30     ` Smith, Gary R
2009-02-19 21:54       ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2009-02-21 13:07       ` Steve Grubb

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