rsyslog CPU Usage

rsyslogd has a tendency to use 100%+ CPU on OpenVZ. Please run the following commands with SSH to fix the problem:

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