[rsyslog] Three bugs to stable v2 reported to Red Hat

[Dag Wieers]

Hi,

Last week we reported three bugs to Red Hat that hit us in a single 
incident :) Each of these three bugs were apparently known "shortcomings" 
in rsyslog v2.0.6, here is the list:

  - Bug 519192 -  rsyslog server cannot handle more than 1000 open files
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519192

  - Bug 519201 -  rsyslog stops logging locally if remote messages are being queued
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519201

  - Bug 519203 - Applications block when rsyslog has remote messages queued
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519203

We hope we will get fixes for at least the two latter issues, as they 
seem to be fixed in newer releases. Since it is likely that Red Hat might 
rebase rsyslog in RHEL5 to a newer stable branch in RHEL5.5, we hope to 
see a fix before we see a rebased package.

The limitation of 1000 open file descriptors however (limitation of 
select()) is still there in newer rsyslog releases and therefor we are 
probably forced to work around it. Although I find it personally strange 
that this limitation is not a more widespread problem. Is everybody using 
a database backend ? Or are people segregating syslog messages by 
location/importance ?

Feedback welcome !
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