[rsyslog] Feedback request: in-memory buffering messages

[Rainer Gerhards]

Hi Michael,

I think you were hit by this bug:

http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=86

interestingly, nobody who experienced it bothered to report, until
recently. Thus it was for quite a while inside the core engine ;)

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Michael Mansour
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:09 PM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Feedback request: in-memory buffering messages
> 
> Hi Rainer,
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just got an idea for a feature inspired by the ramlog project. I
> have
> > blogged about it:
> >
> > http://blog.gerhards.net/2008/07/writing-syslog-messages-to-ram-
> buffer.h
> > tml
> >
> > If you have some minutes to spare, please review and provide
> feedback.
> 
> I've read and honestly have no opinion on it :)
> 
> The last time I tried delayed writes with rsyslog the machines I set
> them up
> on basically died (load averages above 30, so they were complete
> unresponsive).
> 
> I log rsyslog to a MySQL DB (for maillogs only) and it took me a while
> to
> realise it was the rsyslog changes I made that killed the mail
servers.
> They
> even hung on boot ie. would not complete a boot process. When I got
> into
> single user mode and didn't start up any services, I was able to
change
> the
> rsyslog.conf file back to my older one, and everything was fine again.
> 
> This was some versions back (but still the 3.x stable series) but
> because
> these were production servers, I didn't bother analysing what went
> wrong or
> why it happened, I was just glad I had my mail servers back again and
> working.
> 
> I might give this a second attempt at some stage this year, because I
> like the
> feature for queuing entries if the DB is down, but until then, I
really
> don't
> have much to say about the delayed writes stuff :)
> 
> Michael.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Rainer
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