[syslog-ng] change rsyslog for syslog-ng

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 22:51 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Bill Anderson <Bill.Anderson at bodybuilding.com> writes:
> 
> > On Jun 22, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> >
> >> Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano at barcelonamedia.org> writes:
> >> 
> >>> 
> >> 
> >>> 3.       Is there any client limit on syslog-ng?
> >> 
> >> Nope, here isn't. Apart from OS limits, that is. Whatever those may be -
> >> but chances are, you're not gonna hit them anytime soon. ;)
> >> 
> >> Hope these answers make sense!
> >
> >
> > Isn't the default limit on concurrent incoming TCP connections 100? I seem to recall hitting that when swapping out syslogd for syslog-ng on a central log server last year.
> 
> There's a max-connections() source option, which defaults to 10,
> yes. But that can be increased, and then the limit is pretty much the
> kernel. (Just tried with 512 concurrent connections, with
> max-connections(1000), worked without a hitch).
> 

the current fd limit might be a blockage after that, but that can also
be tuned either with ulimit, or the --fd-limit (IIRC, but see
--help-all) command line option.

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Bazsi