<div dir="ltr">Thanks Daniel. I think I owe you a six-pack of your favourite beer just for the script :) <div><br></div><div style>Very interesting stats. For both hosts, lps ranges from anywhere between few hundred to 30K per second but falls to zero for several seconds. All the packet loss happens when the lps is peaking. What has me concerned is that lps falls to zero for 15-20 seconds at a time. During this period disk IO falls to near zero too and packet hemorrhaging pauses. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>All my sources are tcp and there are only four of them but those are proprietary products so they may be sending data in batches/bursts. I will tweak the tcp source options and see what more I can squeeze out of this build of syslog-ng and the disks. But you are right - I do need to upgrade to the multi-threaded version asap. At some point, a single core process is going to stall on writing to disk and not be able to reap tcp buffers during that time.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I think the disk scheduler probably did not have any impact but one system has the disk scheduler tweak and other doesn't but I don't see any significant differences with packet loss on either. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Right now, I think the issue simply is that when a burst of data comes in, the single core syslog-ng blocks of IO and cannot switch back to reading TCP buffers fast enough to clear up everything in the buffer. High network IO, high Disk IO, high lps and packet loss - all match up.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>A larger receive buffer for the tcp source in syslog config will be a band-aid, I think until I can build a multi-threaded syslog-ng. Eventually, given that these are 7200RPM disks in RAID-1, the disk sub-system will start being a bottleneck but by then, hopefully, I will find a host with better disk througput :-)</div>
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<div>Thanks for the quick response, Daniel.</div>
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I look at statistics for an hour before tweaking flush_lines to zero and setting log_fifo_size to 10000. In that period, syslog-ng reported processing 7,898,310,589 messages across all destinations and dropped 4,200,260.
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<div>After making the change (flush_lines set to 0 and log_fifo_size to 10000), I looked at three sets (half hour) of stats (default, every 10 minutes). The dropped messages are now zero across all destinations.</div>
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<div>But the collapsed TCP packets count keeps incrementing. I ran 'iostat -xm 5' and "watch -d 'netstat -s | grep collpased' " in two windows side-by-side. Each time that disk IO spikes up, the TCP collapsed counter starts incrementing. Disk IO remains almost
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<div>Does this mean I need to bump up log_fifo_size even higher? I think ideally we want the disk to be consistently written to instead of bursts of write activity. Right?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I have a pair of Syslog-NG servers running 3.2.5-3. The hardware specs are - Quad Xeon E5-2680 (32 cores), 32GB RAM, and two 1TB SAS 7200 RPM disks in RAID-1.
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<div>I have already set TCP kernel buffers to 128MB max and set disk scheduler to "deadline".</div>
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<div>But even under light disk IO load, from ~8-25MB, I see "1320811067 packets collapsed in receive queue due to low socket buffer". I had some other processes on the host writing to disk. Stopping them reduced the packet errors but this number still keeps
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<div>To rule out other issues, I temporarily pointed my disk-based destinations to /dev/null and then packet losses/errors stopped. So either Syslog-NG isn't able to write to disk fast enough or there is an underlying OS/hardware issue.</div>
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<div>Both hosts have the same issue. Any pointers in troubleshooting it will be appreciated.</div>
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