[syslog-ng]Syslog-ng Reliability

[Victor]

Well, I got syslog-ng setup and running. Runs great. I have to say, this is
a realy nice way of doing logging. Major kudos to developers.

a few questions:

1. How reliable is network server operation of Syslog-ng under heavy load? I
am running remote servers using tcp() and anticipate a lot of throughput.
Will syslog-ng not drop stuff like syslogd does?

2. log_fifo_size(100) is this in bytes or kbytes or what? Is this a memory
buffer before a write is done?

3. I didn't find the documentation in the man page for variables like $YEAR,
$MONTH, $HOST, etc. Where is the list of these?

4. Any idea when compress(on) function will be implemented?