Fix for rsyslog uses almost 100% CPU on OpenVZ system

If you ever get the problem with rsyslog for some reason use nearly 100% of the CPU all the time there may be some compatibility problem (probably a bug out of your control) with your system and rsyslog. Especially systems running on OpenVZ.

I had this problem with my VPS running Ubuntu 14.04.01 and on OpenVZ

A quick fix to prevent this for me was is to change the rsyslog.cnf-file by terminal:

sed -i -e 's/^\$ModLoad imklog/#\$ModLoad imklog/g' /etc/rsyslog.conf

You should restart the rsyslog-service to make the changes apply by:

service rsyslog stop
service rsyslog start

I hope this solve the problem for you.