16 Sep
2004
16 Sep
'04
5:34 p.m.
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 17:14, Jim Mozley wrote:
Balazs Scheidler wrote:
syslog-ng keeps those messages in a memory buffer, whose size is controlled using the log_fifo_size() global/per-destination parameter.
Thank you, this makes sense.
As a follow-up question I'd like to ask what happens if the number of lines set by this parameter is exceeded.
Are messages dropped or the oldest first overwritten?
new messages are dropped
I assume this is recorded on the server that dropped the message with the STATS: dropped message?
yes -- Bazsi