[syslog-ng]STATS: dropped 644 ?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 00:09 +0100, Matthias Keller wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm using syslog-ng for quite a while now and finally want to resolve 
> this problem (I suppose)...
> I pretty much daily get a whole bunch of dropped messages...
> It's not always at the same times but always for several hours!
> I'm logging the stats hourly so usually for about 8h a day I get drops 
> in the hundreds....?
> 
> I guess this isn't normal and shouldn't be as my system isn't really 
> busy at all...
> 

what kind of destinations do you use? the DROP count in STATS reports
messages dropped _within_ syslog-ng and affects only pipe and tcp
destinations.

maybe you have an xconsole not being able to process messages at the
required rate?

-- 
Bazsi