[syslog-ng] syslog drops stats

[Niki Hammler]

Hi syslog-ng pro's,

I always get messages like these:

Oct  2 09:28:05 nobaq syslog-ng[2207]: STATS: dropped 548

I searched google but I could not find a solution or a good explanation
why this happens.

If this is true and syslog dropped 548 (!) log messages this would be
bad. I think a syslog daemon is an important thing that should NOT just
drop messages.

I can't imagine that my system is not strong enough. 512MB RAM, 1.7Ghz.
I've already set the FIFO size to a high value:

$ grep size /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
        # log_fifo_size(2048);
        log_fifo_size(32768);
        log_msg_size(2048);

But it does not help.

Then I grepped the source to see where the problem comes from. There is
a variable pktbuf_dropped_pkts and in the whole source I can not find
any reference that increments this var.

Is this warning uncritical?

Is there any solution on this?

Best regards,

Niki

PS: Debian sarge, v. 1.6.5