How to recover error - Audit error: dispatch err (pipe full) event lost

How to recover error - Audit error: dispatch err (pipe full) event lost?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3

Issue

  • Log file /var/log/messages showing audit error as below -

    dispatch err (pipe full) event lost
    dispatch err (pipe full) event lost
    dispatch err (pipe full) event lost
    dispatch err (pipe full) event lost
    dispatch err (pipe full) event lost
    dispatch err (pipe full) event lost
    dispatch err (pipe full) event lost
    dispatch err (pipe full) event lost
    dispatch err (pipe full) event lost
    dispatch err (pipe full) event lost
    dispatch error reporting limit reached - ending report notification.
    

Resolution

  • Edit /etc/audit/auditd.conf and set the value of disp_qos=lossy setting to disp_qos=lossless

    cat /etc/audit/auditd.conf  | grep disp_qos
    disp_qos=lossless 
    

Root Cause

  • The reason behind this error is that program is not pulling the events from the audit daemon fast enough.
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