[syslog-ng]Logs lost in the FIFO

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 09:27 -0500, Jay Guerette wrote:
> How exactly does that work? You can only "stop writing" for so long,
> before a buffer fills up and you have to drop messages...

Simple: syslog-ng stops reading. if you have flow-controlled sources
(e.g. unix-stream, or TCP with the other end doing flow control as well)
then at the end the application will block on sending the message.

> 
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:53:16 +0100, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 01:14 -0500, Jay Guerette wrote:
> > > They're dropped, lost, unrecoverable. There really is nothing else
> > > syslog-ng could do in those situations.
> > >
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Bazsi