[syslog-ng] syslog-ng stats
Balazs Scheidler
bazsi at balabit.hu
Fri May 11 19:49:47 CEST 2007
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 12:10 -0400, Jason Qualkenbush wrote:
> Can someone explain what the difference is between "queued" and "received"?
>
> I'm looking at the difference between two different syslog-ng servers.
> On the light server, the queued and received counter always match.
> On the heavily loaded server the queued and received differ quite a
> bit:
>
> processed='center(queued)=4988110'
> processed='center(received)=1103080'
>
> Am I losing messages?
No, the central log dispatcher can issue a single message multiple
times. So incoming messages 1103080, messages towards destinations
4988110.
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Bazsi
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