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I just built a new linux 3.7.6 kernel and have a built-in module (which is not in use) throwing errors as fast as it probably can, ie, reporting a busy loop. Obviously this is not good and I have to deal with it, etc, but I would really -- really -- really -- really -- really -- really -- really appreciate it if rsyslog would not repeat the message on disk to the tune of 10MB/hour, etc.

I had thought syslog daemons prevented this by using "last message repeated" but that seems not to be the case. I have no idea what this option would even be called, since compression is a hot bed of references.

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  • Are they identical messages? "Last message repeated" on suppresses identical messages.
    – derobert
    Feb 9, 2013 at 3:19
  • Oh they are very identical. No component should do this, it's an (unused) network driver, it should just crap out at worst. Anyway I found $RepeatedMessageReduction and will try that later. It seems some years ago the rsyslog devs decided this feature (filtering duplicate messages) was not worth what it cost resource wise and may have depreciated it right out...
    – goldilocks
    Feb 9, 2013 at 4:33

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What "builtin module that isn't used" is spewing messages? Most of the kernel messages that could repeat are printed a few times at most, so this looks like something nonstandard. Self compiled kernel, any special configuration? Debugging something perhaps?

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  • No, in fact it is ath9k (atheros wireless); the config was the same as I used for 3.6.2 -- with ath9k built-in. However, looking back through the logs it did happen once with 3.6.2, obviously I did not notice. I think it has only happened when I use the wireless (it seems to work fine), which I don't often do with this box. But I should report that, something wrong there.
    – goldilocks
    Feb 11, 2013 at 7:43
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I can confirm $RepeatedMessageReduction no longer works for rsyslog 5.8.10; ie, the "last message repeated" feature has been removed and there is no replacement. Oh well.

Seems this probably happened a few years ago:

http://kb.monitorware.com/last-message-repeated-feature-will-go-away-t1720.html

http://lists.adiscon.net/pipermail/rsyslog/2008-March/000603.html

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