rsylogd is consuming all available memory on OpenShift 3.7 master node running on RHEL 7.4

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

What - rsylogd is consuming very high memory.
where - ocp-master-1 node
When - The issue occurs within 2 hours of restarting rsyslogd

valgrind memcheck was used to check for memory leaks, but the report showed no memory leak.

Environment

  • OCP 3.7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4

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