[syslog-ng]Message retension period

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 17:14, Jim Mozley wrote:
> Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> 
> > syslog-ng keeps those messages in a memory buffer, whose size is
> > controlled using the log_fifo_size() global/per-destination parameter.
> 
> Thank you, this makes sense.
> 
> As a follow-up question I'd like to ask what happens if the number of 
> lines set by this parameter is exceeded.
> 
> Are messages dropped or the oldest first overwritten?

new messages are dropped

> 
> I assume this is recorded on the server that dropped the message with 
> the STATS: dropped message?

yes

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Bazsi