Sent: Fri Nov 25 2011 05:04:01 GMT-0700 (MST)
From: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Multi-threaded in open source?

On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 19:52 -0700, Patrick H. wrote:

Yes, the 3.3 branch supports threading. Note though that 3.3 hasnt had
a great track record so far (lots of bugs). However 3.3.3 might be
stable enough for production use.

The track record is true enough, however the positive feedback has
started too. So at least give it a try, send feedback and fall back to
older in case an issue happens.

I only had a single 3.3.x fix ever since 3.3.3, which is more than a
week old now :)

Actually I have found a bug in 3.3.3, I just havent had time to go track it down.
I ran into a case where I had a filter that was setting a macro called 'FEXT' which I was using in a file destination for the filename extension. However it was acting as if the FEXT macro didnt exist at all (as filenames had no extension) and the message text was replaced with the contents of the FEXT macro. I downgraded syslog-ng to 3.2.4 with the exact same config (except with the threading config option removed) and it behaved as expected there.