Hello out there, I get loads of STATS: dropped: >0 and don't know why. I've got syslog-ng running on a central log host. Each host also has syslog-ng running. syslog-ng ist configured to use tcp instead of udp. In syslog-ng.conf I have right at the moment: options { long_hostnames(off); sync(10); log_fifo_size(1000); Playing around with sync and log_fifo_size doesn't change anything. syslog-ng is 1.6.0rc4 from Debian Testing. Has anybody any idea about this? Best Regards Manfred extract from syslog: Mar 9 10:02:10 www syslog-ng[302]: STATS: dropped 3 Mar 9 10:02:18 dns syslog-ng[31655]: STATS: dropped 7 Mar 9 10:02:26 bugzilla syslog-ng[31212]: STATS: dropped 3 Mar 9 10:02:27 proxy syslog-ng[32443]: STATS: dropped 3 Mar 9 10:02:38 mail syslog-ng[32293]: STATS: dropped 18 Mar 9 10:06:53 tux syslog-ng[1020]: STATS: dropped 178 Mar 9 10:05:07 brutus syslog-ng[23681]: STATS: dropped 61 Mar 9 10:12:18 dns syslog-ng[31655]: STATS: dropped 27 Mar 9 10:12:28 proxy syslog-ng[32443]: STATS: dropped 27 Mar 9 10:12:38 mail syslog-ng[32293]: STATS: dropped 84 Mar 9 10:16:54 tux syslog-ng[1020]: STATS: dropped 219 Mar 9 10:15:07 brutus syslog-ng[23681]: STATS: dropped 112 Mar 9 10:22:28 bugzilla syslog-ng[31212]: STATS: dropped 28 Mar 9 10:22:38 mail syslog-ng[32293]: STATS: dropped 60 Mar 9 10:26:54 tux syslog-ng[1020]: STATS: dropped 121 Mar 9 10:25:07 brutus syslog-ng[23681]: STATS: dropped 97 Mar 9 10:32:12 www syslog-ng[302]: STATS: dropped 27 Mar 9 10:32:38 mail syslog-ng[32293]: STATS: dropped 29 Mar 9 10:36:54 tux syslog-ng[1020]: STATS: dropped 248 Mar 9 10:35:07 brutus syslog-ng[23681]: STATS: dropped 80 Mar 9 10:42:38 mail syslog-ng[32293]: STATS: dropped 74 Mar 9 10:46:54 tux syslog-ng[1020]: STATS: dropped 92 Mar 9 10:45:08 brutus syslog-ng[23681]: STATS: dropped 15 Mar 9 10:52:38 mail syslog-ng[32293]: STATS: dropped 85 Mar 9 10:56:54 tux syslog-ng[1020]: STATS: dropped 201 Mar 9 10:55:09 brutus syslog-ng[23681]: STATS: dropped 135 -- manfred heubach edv und neue medien Hindenburgstr. 47 D-73728 Esslingen Tel. +49 711 9315824 Fax +49 711 9315825 www.heubach-edv.de Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation für Unternehmen