rsyslog : rsyslogd-2177: imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 32272 due to rate-limiting

mint-13 ~ # dpkg -l rsyslog Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name           Version        Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii  rsyslog        5.8.6-1ubuntu8 reliable system and kernel logging daemon mint-13 ~ # tail -1 /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 13 Maya"

When outputting lots of debug logs via rsyslogd , I’ve seen the following error.

/var/log/syslog

mint-13 rsyslogd-2177: imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 32272 due to rate-limiting

PID 32272 is unbound process.

To solve this ,  turning off rate-limiting.

or

change logging configuration of PID 32272 to reduce the amount of logs


I’ll change rsyslog.conf.
edit /etc/rsyslog.conf ( add the red line )

$ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging $SystemLogRateLimitInterval 0 # turn off rate limiting

restart rsyslog

mint-13 rsyslog.d # /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart