[syslog-ng] spoof-source performance issues

Zoltán Pallagi pzolee at balabit.hu
Mon Jun 28 20:40:34 CEST 2010


Hi,

I think it will be an udp kernel buffer problem (and not syslog 
problem), see the earlier thread of "[syslog-ng] Tests using loggen - 
not receiving all the packets" in this mail list.




2010.06.28. 20:21 keltezéssel, Martin Holste írta:
> I'm finding that with a destination of udp("10.x.x.x", port(514)
> spoof_source(yes)) about half of messages get lost when going from one
> syslog-ng host to another at a high message rate (>  3k/sec).  This is
> on 3.1 OSE and the hosts are on the same subnet and switch, so there
> shouldn't be any network devices interfering.  Has anyone else had
> this same issue?  My hunch is that it's either a performance issue
> with the way the libnet (I'm using 1.1.2.1 on SuSE 10.2) API is
> implemented or it's an issue within the libnet API.  Has anyone else
> noticed performance problems when using spoof_source?
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