On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:28:03PM +0200, Loubet Jean-Michel wrote:

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On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:36:44PM +0200, Loubet Jean-Michel wrote:

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Hi,

I don't really understand what means "dropped" in stats. I've done benchs and I didn't found any correlation between really dropped messages and the number in dropped stats.

DROPPED is the number of messages dropped by syslog-ng itself. It does not count messages dropped due to full socket buffers (as they are dropped by the kernel and not syslog-ng)

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) -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1