[Bug 523610] Re: rsyslogd spins CPU on some kernels

[Justin Delegard]

I just upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04 and encountered this problem.  As it
turns out I was still using the 10.04 kernel and my Grub menu was
woefully out of date and so was my kernel.  I ran

apt-get install grub2

and that fixed my loader problems and also fixed the rsyslogd issue.  I
assume that the loader was expected to have upgraded between my release
revisions but was not upgraded as part of the script or some such issue.

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Title:
  rsyslogd spins CPU on some kernels

Status in “rsyslog” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “rsyslog” source package in Lucid:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  While running 20100218 EC2 image (ami-0512fe6c) rsyslog is constantly
  the following message (found in /var/log/kern.log):

  Feb 18 05:01:52 ubuntu kernel: imklog 4.2.0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
  Feb 18 05:01:52 ubuntu kernel: Cannot read proc file system: 1 - Operation not permitted.
  Feb 18 05:02:22 ubuntu kernel: last message repeated 643668 times
  Feb 18 05:03:22 ubuntu kernel: last message repeated 1865459 times
  Feb 18 05:04:22 ubuntu kernel: last message repeated 1327321 times
  Feb 18 05:05:22 ubuntu kernel: last message repeated 1644146 times
  Feb 18 05:06:23 ubuntu kernel: last message repeated 1826234 times
  Feb 18 05:07:23 ubuntu kernel: last message repeated 1817861 times
  Feb 18 05:08:23 ubuntu kernel: last message repeated 1807415 times
  Feb 18 05:09:23 ubuntu kernel: last message repeated 1813151 times
  Feb 18 05:10:23 ubuntu kernel: last message repeated 1857271 times
  Feb 18 05:11:23 ubuntu kernel: last message repeated 1810173 times
  Feb 18 05:12:23 ubuntu kernel: last message repeated 1826654 times
  Feb 18 05:13:23 ubuntu kernel: last message repeated 1825384 times

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