[syslog-ng]STATS: dropped 644 ?

[Matthias Keller]

Balazs Scheidler wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 00:09 +0100, Matthias Keller wrote:
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>>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....?
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>>I guess this isn't normal and shouldn't be as my system isn't really 
>>busy at all...
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>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.
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>maybe you have an xconsole not being able to process messages at the
>required rate?
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Thanks for that hint

There was the pipe to xconsole activated which I suppose I dont need as 
I dont run any X on that server...
I disabled it and didn't get any drops since...

Thanks

Matt