[syslog-ng] Tests using loggen - not receiving all the packets

Clayton Dukes cdukes at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 04:41:17 CEST 2010


I just happened to re-read my original post. Is it purely coincidental
that no matter what the message rate was that I sent (5kmps in the
first test vs 600mps in the second), the result was a log file of only
around 8k messages?



On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Clayton Dukes <cdukes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Finally getting a chance to revisit this.
> I'm still seeing the problem.
>
> If I run loggen like so:
> /www/svn/loggen -r 600 -D -I 30 127.0.0.1 514
> average rate = 607.51 msg/sec, count=18226, time=30.012, msg size=256,
> bandwidth=151.88 kB/sec
>
> I only get around 8k messages:
> wc -l /var/log/logzilla/syslog.log
> 8740 /var/log/logzilla/syslog.log
>
>
> I've tried bumping up flush_lines and the fifo but neither seemed to
> make much of a difference.
>
> Here's my config:
> options {
>      long_hostnames(off);
>      log_msg_size(8192);
>      flush_lines(1); # Note: I've tried this up to 1000
>      log_fifo_size(35535);
>      time_reopen(10);
>      use_dns(yes);
>      dns_cache(yes);
>      use_fqdn(yes);
>      keep_hostname(yes);
>      chain_hostnames(no);
> };
>
> destination df_logzilla {
>   file("/var/log/logzilla/syslog.log"
>   template("$HOST\t$FACILITY\t$LEVEL\t$TAG\t$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY\t$HOUR:$MIN:$SEC\t$PROGRAM\t$MSG\n")
>   );
> };
>
> log {
>   source(s_all);
>      destination(df_logzilla);
> };
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Martin Holste <mcholste at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What do you get if you send the loggen data to a simple netcat session with
>> its output redirected to a flat file?  Do you see all 55k messages using wc
>> -l?
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Clayton Dukes <cdukes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I should have mentioned that this is logging directly to a file.
>>>
>>> destination df_logzilla {
>>>    file("/var/log/logzilla/syslog.log"
>>>
>>> template("$HOST\t$FACILITY\t$LEVEL\t$TAG\t$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY\t$HOUR:$MIN:$SEC\t$PROGRAM\t$MSG\n")
>>>    );
>>> };
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Clayton Dukes <cdukes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>> I'm trying to run a test to check insert rates.
>>>> If I run this command:
>>>>
>>>> ./loggen -r 5000 -D -I 10 127.0.0.1 514
>>>>
>>>> The output shows:
>>>> average rate = 5441.60 msg/sec, count=54420, time=10.007, msg size=256,
>>>> bandwidth=1360.40 kB/sec
>>>>
>>>> But, my stats don't show that many messages received:
>>>>
>>>> syslog-ng[6660]: Log statistics; dropped=\'pipe(/dev/xconsole)=0\',
>>>> processed=\'center(queued)=24232\', processed=\'center(received)=8077,
>>>> processed=\'destination(df_logzilla)=8077\'
>>>>
>>>> As you can see, it sent 55k messages, but I only received 8k.
>>>> Am I doing something wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Here are my options in the syslog-ng config:
>>>> options {
>>>>       long_hostnames(off);
>>>>       log_msg_size(8192);
>>>>       flush_lines(1);
>>>>       log_fifo_size(16384);
>>>>       time_reopen(10);
>>>>       use_dns(yes);
>>>>       dns_cache(yes);
>>>>       use_fqdn(yes);
>>>>       keep_hostname(yes);
>>>>       chain_hostnames(no);
>>>>       perm(0644);
>>>>      stats_freq(60);
>>>>
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> ______________________________________________________________
>>>>
>>>> Clayton Dukes
>>>> ______________________________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
>
>
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>
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