[syslog-ng]What means "dropped" ?

[Loubet Jean-Michel]

>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)

I'll give you more informations :

Here are my bench's results :

20000 msgs sent
19873 msgs written (after kill -HUP)

and my logs :

[...]
STATS: dropped 0
STATS: dropped 64
STATS: dropped 1994
STATS: dropped 2002
STATS: dropped 1871
STATS: dropped 1994
STATS: dropped 1998
STATS: dropped 1744
STATS: dropped 71
STATS: dropped 0
[...]



That's why I said I didn't found any correlation between the 2 results ...
Any idea ?



Thanks,

JM Loubet