[syslog-ng] [patch] Add follow_freq_ms option

[Joe Shaw]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Evan Rempel <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:
> Wouldn't the log_fetch_limit set to a large number allow for 1 second follow
> to process huge amounts of data. You would have to set the log_fifo_size large
> enough to host this number as well, but I don't see the requirement for
> the millisecond polling.

This is a good point, but since increasing the log_fifo_size means
additional memory usage allowing millisecond polling allows me to make
the tradeoff of CPU vs. memory.  It may be that on this host I have
more CPU to burn than memory.

Joe