Why is logwatch consuming large amount of memory?
Issue
- System became unresponsive and a vmcore was collected.
- "kmem -i" output from vmcore shows that system ran out memory.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- logwatch-7.3-6.el5
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