[syslog-ng]Slow capturing syslog

[Brad Arlt]

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.

This feels like a DNS issue.  If you tell syslog-ng not to resolve
hostnames, does the lag disappear?
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