[syslog-ng]Slow capturing syslog

Balazs Scheidler bazsi@balabit.hu
Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:15:34 +0100


On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:32:58PM -0800, Chee Chew wrote:
> I tested with kiwi syslog generator and I found either syslog-ng or syslogd
> is putting the log into file destination very slow at fastest exactly 10sec
> per log. At the rest of the log is queue in buffer. If syslog-ng were to run
> in environment that has log input with consistently 1 log per second, this
> will not work even we set the buffer large. Also not real time.
> 
> I believe this is something to do with the synchronisation of SOCK_STREAM
> socket because I am using linux. Do you know how to fine tune this.

we are using syslog-ng in environments where there are more than 50
messages/seconds. so you may have missed something.

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