[syslog-ng]Modification to slowly start destination programs

[Nate Campi]

Hmm, perl compiling the swatch script, which creates a sub-script that
really does the monitoring is really expensive compared to the simple
forking of processes. Based on this I'd say try using a shell wrapper
script that sleeps a random amount of time before launching swatch.
Granted your writes to that destination will block for the sleep period,
but at least your system won't thrash trying to lauch all those heavy
perl processes at once.

This might work for the short term, until you find a more elegant
solution.

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:29:44PM -0500, Keith Resar wrote:
> Our central syslog server has a separate SWATCH process for each
> server (though it is sometimes divided only by server type).
> 
> Overall, we like the granularity of control and reliability that
> this setup offers -- i.e. changing the rules for one server/SWATCH
> process has no impact on the monitoring for other servers.
> 
> Keith Resar.
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:10:21AM -0500, Keith Resar wrote:
> > > In my current syslog-ng setup there are many destination programs.
> > > When syslog-ng restarts these all load at once, causing the system
> > > to grind to a halt.
> > > 
> > > As a solution, I'd like syslog-ng to spawn these programs more
> > > slowly, perhaps one every few seconds.
> > 
> > Perhaps we could explore whether this is the best solution. If you tell
> > us what you use so many destination programs for, maybe we can help you
> > to come up with a setup where you need fewer.
> > -- 
> > Nate Campi    http://www.campin.net 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > syslog-ng maillist  -  syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
> > https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng
> > Frequently asked questions at http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html
> 
> -- 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> syslog-ng maillist  -  syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
> https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng
> Frequently asked questions at http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html
> 

-- 
Nate Campi    http://www.campin.net