[rsyslog] how to best rotate files

[david at lang.hm]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, david at lang.hm wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
>
>> side-note: do you mind if we concentrate on the performance issue first
>> and keep an eye on this here (as a secondary goal) while we do it? I
>> think that would enable me to address both most quickly (I can add
>> instrumentation code/checks while I modify the file output). There may
>> come a time when reversing priorities makes sense, but for now I think
>> this would be the best way...
>
> no problem.

an interesting tidbit, once I started the performance testing with name 
lookups turned off I haven't had a failure of the rotation.

I left it running overnight under heavy load, so I'll see how far it got 
in the morning.

David Lang

>> Rainer
>> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 11:57 +0200, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
>>> mhh... maybe the valgrind version is too old (I am using 3.3.1) - it
>>> still has no source line information. Without that, it has very little
>>> value. OK, I'll look at some other ways.
>>
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