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Hi,</div>
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Version 4.3.1 of syslog-ng was released last weekend and it contains an interesting feature: parallelize(). TL;DR: it allows faster processing of single, high-traffic TCP connections. You can read more about it in my latest blog at:
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https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/accelerating-single-tcp-connections-in-syslog-ng-parallelize</a><br>
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The problem is that it requires a modified ivykis library. The syslog-ng source code bundles ivykis, and has a modified version. However, all Fedora and RHEL syslog-ng packages use a separate ivykis package.</div>
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I feel uncomfortable with modifying the "official" ivykis package in Fedora / RHEL with patches not yet in the upstream ivykis sources. And it would not help the majority of syslog-ng users anyway, who use RHEL 8 and compatible operating systems. I could only
add it to Fedora and upcoming RHEL releases.</div>
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However, I want to enable this feature for the majority of syslog-ng users. <br>
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Plan: add a modified ivykis library to my unofficial repositories. The version would stay 0.42.4, but the release would be a high number, making sure that it stays larger than the "official" package. First I'd introduce it to my git snapshot repository, and
once I collect some positive feedback, I implement it in other repos too for upcoming syslog-ng versions.</div>
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What do you think?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik@oneidentity.com><br>
Balabit (a OneIdentity company) / syslog-ng upstream<br>
<a href="https://syslog-ng.com/community/" target="_blank">https://syslog-ng.com/<wbr>community/</a><br>
<a href="https://twitter.com/PCzanik" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/PCzanik</a></div>
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