[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng beginners guide

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 09:49 +0300, Cosmin Neagu wrote:
> Sorry for answering so late.
> You were right guys about the firewall, on the Fedora server iptables
> was on, and as soon as I turned it off, everything worked great. 
> Know i have to learn how to configure iptables, cause i don't want to
> leave it off.
> Anyone knows a good starting point for iptables?
> 
> 
> 
> And another thing that bothers me...why the hell does the cpu stays
> most of the time at 100% because of the syslog-ng process?
> 
> top - 09:42:37 up 55 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.10, 1.07, 0.98
> Tasks: 134 total,   3 running, 131 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 12.3%us, 39.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 48.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   2060488k total,   850036k used,  1210452k free,    77172k
> buffers
> Swap:  2931820k total,        0k used,  2931820k free,   460408k
> cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
> COMMAND                                                                                         
>  2527 root      20   0  3344 1268  848 R  100  0.1  32:13.86
> syslog-ng                                                                                       
>  3028 root      20   0  305m  34m  11m S    2  1.7   1:04.90
> Xorg                                                                                            
>    22 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.12
> ata/1                                                                                           
>  3788 cosmin    20   0  221m 102m  26m S    0  5.1   1:12.27
> firefox     
> 
> I have a dual core processor, and either CPU1 or CPU2 stays at 100%
> utilization...

This seems to be a bug, however I don't know anything similar in 2.0.

Can you please post your configuration file which shows this symptom? Do
you get this right after you start syslog-ng? Is it always reproducible?
Can you list the exact version you are using and the way you got it
compiled? Is it a distribution package?

So as you may see, we're happy to help you, but we need more
information.

-- 
Bazsi