I've only got one syslog client host for my bench (solaris 6), and one collector with syslog-ng 1.6.0rc3 (solaris 6). Here are my global properties if you need them : keep_hostname(yes); long_hostnames(no); log_fifo_size(8192); log_msg_size (2048); sync(1024); use_time_recvd(yes); use_dns(no); use_fqdn(no); dns_cache(no); stats (4); JM Loubet
I'll give you more informations :
Here are my bench's results :
20000 msgs sent 19873 msgs written (after kill -HUP)
and my logs :
[...] STATS: dropped 0 STATS: dropped 64 STATS: dropped 1994 STATS: dropped 2002 STATS: dropped 1871 STATS: dropped 1994 STATS: dropped 1998 STATS: dropped 1744 STATS: dropped 71 STATS: dropped 0 [...]
each destination may drop messages, and this is an aggregated result. (e.g. if you have 5 destinations, a single message may be counted 5 times, provided all destinations were full)