[syslog-ng]Answer to the reliability problem

[Balazs Scheidler]

> So you can see that when the queue is full, the messages simply get
> dropped.  That's bad!
> 
> The solution is to flush the queue when it is full, and then continue
> looping over the available input.  The question is, what code should be
> responsible for doing this flushing?  Shouldn't some piece of code be
> checking for the ST_FAIL return code?

Could you explain why it is better to flush already buffered data?

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