[syslog-ng]Is there a way to define message priority for syslog-ng?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:45:09PM +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2002-04-02 09:03:48 +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 06:36:01PM +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> > > If syslog-ng blocks trying to write on any queue it will block as a
> > > whole (using TCP for high-priority queues and UDP for low-priority
> > > queues might mitigate this).
> > 
> > syslog-ng will not block on TCP destinations. it fetches messages and sends
> > them on to the buffers of different destinations, and flushes those buffers
> > when appropriate (e.g. the socket becomes writable)
> 
> Nice. What happens if the sockets stays unwritable for a long time? Does
> the buffer grow indefinitely or are messages thrown away when it becomes
> full resp. reaches a maximum size? 

you can control the buffer size using log_fifo_size(<numberofmessages>), by
default it contains 100 messages.

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Bazsi
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