rsyslogd takes CPU all the to 99% to 100%

[Antonio Olivares]

Dear all,

rsyslogd takes CPU to 100% 

[olivares at localhost ~]$ top

top - 11:33:54 up 9 min,  2 users,  load average:
1.84, 1.90, 1.02
Tasks: 130 total,   1 running, 122 sleeping,   0
stopped,   7 zombie
Cpu(s): 95.1%us,  4.9%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa, 
0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    762848k total,   671664k used,    91184k free,
   27712k buffers
Swap:  3114416k total,        0k used,  3114416k free,
  397156k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM   
TIME+  COMMAND            
 1793 root      20   0 34728 2652  944 S 89.1  0.3  
5:00.71 rsyslogd           
 3246 root      20   0  170m  17m 6944 S  2.9  2.3  
0:03.55 Xorg               
 3979 olivares  20   0 39604 8604 7076 S  2.9  1.1  
0:00.20 gpk-update-icon    
 4038 olivares  20   0 21412  10m 7048 S  1.3  1.3  
0:00.72 gkrellm            
 4047 olivares  20   0 44188  14m 9.9m S  1.0  2.0  
0:00.36 gnome-terminal     
 4083 olivares  20   0  2424 1088  844 R  1.0  0.1  
0:00.28 top                
 3843 olivares  20   0 26940 2944 1868 S  0.7  0.4  
0:00.33 gnome-screensav    
 3892 olivares  20   0  115m  39m  12m S  0.7  5.3  
0:02.39 nautilus           
 3884 olivares  20   0 25076 8212 7028 S  0.3  1.1  
0:00.17 notification-ar    
    1 root      20   0  2004  768  560 S  0.0  0.1  
0:07.64 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 migration/0        
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    6 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.01 events/0           
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.01 khelper            
   65 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.22 kblockd/0          
[olivares at localhost ~]$ 


I had to kill it :(

[olivares at localhost ~]$ su -
Password: 
[root at localhost ~]# killall -9 rsyslogd

What is happening?
I applied today's updates, the ones that showed up on
rawhide report and the mysterious ones.

Thanks,

Antonio