[syslog-ng]What means "dropped" ?

Balazs Scheidler syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:45:51 +0200


On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:36:44PM +0200, Loubet Jean-Michel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't really understand what means "dropped" in stats. I've done benchs
> and I didn't found any correlation between really dropped messages and the
> number in dropped stats.

DROPPED is the number of messages dropped by syslog-ng itself. It does not
count messages dropped due to full socket buffers (as they are dropped by
the kernel and not syslog-ng)

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