[syslog-ng] Howto avoid or reduce nr of STATS dropped?

[Martin Meiler]

Hello everybody,

we face a problem with our log-server at our department since the last
few weeks. Previously there was no problem concerning this log-server
but now we get messages like

syslog-ng[...]  STATS: dropped 38142

or sometimes even more.

How can we avoid these dropped messages?
Or how can we influence the number of dropped messages?
Or why are messages dropped?

Since the syslog protocol is based on UDP we can not really avoid that
some packets are dropped if many of them arrive at nearly the same time,
or is there a solution.

Thanks for an answer.

Best regards

Martin



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