rsyslogd consumes 100 % CPU on reboot
Every single time I reboot, my computer essentially freezes for a long time (often hours) because rsyslogd
has an extreme CPU usage, 100 % of one core and can't be nice'd. While rsyslogd does its things, I'm unable to restart the other programs; this means after every crash of the system I get stuck for endless times.
What is this process doing? Why can't it be nice?
$ rsyslogd -v
rsyslogd 7.4.10, compiled with:
FEATURE_REGEXP: Yes
FEATURE_LARGEFILE: No
GSSAPI Kerberos 5 support: Yes
FEATURE_DEBUG (debug build, slow code): No
32bit Atomic operations supported: Yes
64bit Atomic operations supported: Yes
Runtime Instrumentation (slow code): No
uuid support: Yes