[syslog-ng] Broken TCP connection

Zoltán Pallagi pzolee at balabit.hu
Thu Jan 7 21:11:15 CET 2010


2010.01.07. 17:53 keltezéssel, James Pirman írta:
> Yes, that is correct.  The 127.0.0.1 destination is actually my own 
> application.
Ok
>
> I just noticed today that the problem seems to be happening when the 
> amount of traffic increases.  Right now I am testing with 
> log_fetch_limit increased from 100 to 1000, and I added log_fifo_size 
> globally and set it to 50000.  I also decreased my flush timeout from 
> 100 to 10.  This appears to be helping and I haven't dropped a 
> connection since.  Does this seem like the correct approach?
I think, this is just a game with numbers but not the real reason for 
this behaviour. If you have problem with large traffic, just write the 
"flags(flow-control)" field into the right destination of your client 
config.
Answer me that I asked of you, please (client config and debug log)
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 17:38:41 +0100
> From: pzolee at balabit.hu
> To: syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu; jim_pirman at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Broken TCP connection
>
> Hi,
>
> If I understand you correctly, you have three client/servers, don't you?
> client(.218) -> relay server(.198) -> local server on relay server 
> (127.0.0.1)
>
> and the problem is that sometimes your relay server drops the 
> connection of client.
>
>
> James Pirman írta:
>
>     Is there anyone that can help with this?  Is there any more
>     information that I need to provide in order for me to get help?
>     I've been dealing with for weeks and am starting to think the only
>     solution is to write my own server.
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     From: jim_pirman at hotmail.com <mailto:jim_pirman at hotmail.com>
>     To: syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu <mailto:syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>
>     Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:22:36 -0600
>     Subject: [syslog-ng] Broken TCP connection
>
>     I am currently having an issue with syslog-ng 3.0.4 where my TCP
>     connection between my client and server is lost throughout the
>     day.  By looking at the pcap file from tcpdump I can tell that the
>     TCP connection reset was initiated by the syslog-ng server.  The
>     only information that was initially in the log file regarding this
>     disconnection was the following 2 lines:
>
>     <45>1 2010-01-05T10:29:32.323-06:00 server-db-01 syslog-ng 29213 -
>     [meta sequenceId="2733719"] notice Syslog connection closed;
>     fd='9', client='AF_INET(192.168.27.218:46326)',
>     local='AF_INET(192.168.27.198:20514)'
>
> Can you show me the previous few lines before this log message?
> Because if syslog-ng drops the connection usually sends log message 
> about the reason of this behaviour, like this:
>
> 2010-01-07T17:24:48+01:00 syslog-ng err Invalid frame header; header=''
> 2010-01-07T17:24:48+01:00 syslog-ng notice Syslog connection closed; 
> fd='10', client='AF_INET(10.100.20.1:33251)', 
> local='AF_INET(10.30.0.32:20514)'
>
>
> Your client config can also be useful, the problem may be on client 
> side. Can you show me the debug log of your client when the connection 
> lost?
>
>
>     and
>
>     <46>1 2010-01-05T10:29:32.323-06:00 server-db-01 syslog-ng 29213 -
>     [meta sequenceId="2733720"] info Closing log transport fd; fd='9'
>
>
>     In order to get more information, I set the following flags in
>     init.d: "-v -d -t".
>
>     This did not give me any more information about the TCP
>     disconnect, however I did notice that a lot of my normal messages
>     were preceeded by the following text:
>
>     <47>1 2010-01-05T10:29:32.323-06:00 server-db-01 syslog-ng 29213 -
>     [meta sequenceId="2733718"] debug Incoming log entry; line=
>
>     A normal log message then follows the '=' sign.
>
>     A decent percentage of my messages are preceeded by this
>     throughout the day, but just before the disconnect it appears that
>     all of my messages from server-db-01 are preceeded by the debug
>     line.  Any ideas as to what could be going on?  I have included my
>     config file below if that helps.
>
>     Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>     -Jim
>
>     @version: 3.0
>     #Default configuration file for syslog-ng.
>     #
>     # For a description of syslog-ng configuration file directives,
>     please read
>     # the syslog-ng Administrator's guide at:
>     #
>     #
>     http://www.balabit.com/dl/html/syslog-ng-admin-guide_en.html/bk01-toc.html
>     #
>     options {
>     keep_hostname(yes);
>     keep_timestamp(yes);
>     frac_digits(3);
>     };
>     source all {
>     internal();
>     syslog(ip("192.168.27.198") port(20514) transport("tcp")
>     log_fetch_limit(100));
>     };
>     destination allclientsfile {
>     file("/data/local/Logs/server-$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY.log"
>     flags(syslog-protocol)
>     flush_timeout(100)
>     create_dirs(yes)
>     dir_owner(jpirman)
>     dir_group(jpirman)
>     owner(jpirman)
>     group(jpirman)
>     template("$PRIORITY $MESSAGE")
>     );
>     };
>     destination msgserver {
>     udp("127.0.0.1" port(20515)
>     flush_timeout(100)
>     template("$ISODATE $PROGRAM $PRIORITY $MESSAGE\n"));
>     };
>     log { source(all); destination(allclientsfile);
>     destination(msgserver);};
>
>
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