[syslog-ng]TCP transport reliability

[Gregor Binder]

SZALAY Attila on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 08:58:46PM +0100:

Hi,

> Yes again, and becouse of this, THERE ARE _NO_ SOLUTION for this problem.
> 
> If you pour water to a horn in full speed, the water will overflow.

unless of course, the horn has a way to stop the flow of water until
it has capacity to process some more of it. :)

The only way to solve this problem (IMHO) would be to make i/o to
syslog-ng a blocking operation. Not many situations where this is
what you would want.

If your system is not fast enough to process the amount of messages
that need to go through, and/or doesn't have enough RAM to hold the
messages until they can go to disk/network, reduce log-traffic or size
your system accordingly. Slowing down the logging clients hardly can 
be called a solution.

Greetings,
  Gregor.

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