ah, thanks a lot!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:55 AM, SZALAY Attila <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sasa@pheniscidae.tvnetwork.hu">sasa@pheniscidae.tvnetwork.hu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi All!<br>
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On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:42 -0500, fedora fedora wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; So what exactly does &quot;dropped=&#39;pipe(/dev/xconsole)=5093&#39;&quot; mean? The<br>
&gt; load of this server is not heavy at all, i guess most of these<br>
&gt; messages are firewall logs,  why so many logs got dropped?<br>
<br>
</div>I think that this is because nobody listen on the other end of that<br>
pipe.<br>
<br>
The /dev/xconsole pipe is a traditional pipe for log readers in X<br>
system. The last time when I see a program reading that file is not<br>
after 1998. That program write the log messages to the X console when<br>
nobody logged in.<br>
<br>
I think you can safely remove that destination especially if you not use<br>
it. :)<br>
<br>
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