[...] I'm using the 'file' driver to read the data from application log files. I supposed I could use a named pipe, but I rather not create a new tool to write data to the pipe and create other bottlnecks and buffering issues.
Might be interesting to test it anyway just by replacing the file with a named pipe. I know I've been piping Apache combined logs and MySQL logs to named pipes for months now and Apache/MySQL have no clue whatsoever they're not writing to real actual files. So maybe your application will be fooled as well. As for the throughput you'll get, I'm not even close to your target. -- --====|====-- --------================|================-------- Patrice Levesque http://ptaff.ca/ syslog-ng.wayne@ptaff.ca --------================|================-------- --====|====-- --