xinetd fills /var/log/messages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Issue

• Using the echo-dgram service in xinetd with the default settings for "cps"  (50 10). When reaching the limit of 50 messages, xinetd writes lots of entries (~1.4 million) to the /var/log/messages file. The entries look like this:

  Jan 30 13:43:33 dl380x1969 xinetd[25668]: 1 descriptors still set  
  Jan 30 13:43:33 dl380x1969 xinetd[25668]: 1 descriptors still set