Hi I personnally find it not very usefull to put it politely. I'd rather have every message and every time stamp for the sake of acuracy and precision then an attempt from the software to be intelligent.
And if you get the benefit of a code clean up then double thumbs up from me. Regards > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rsyslog- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rainer Gerhards > Sent: 18 March 2008 10:05 > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: [rsyslog] Feedback requested "Last message logged n times"... > > Hi all, > > once again, I am in need for feedback. In order to be > backwards-compatible with sysklogd, rsyslogd supported the "last message > repeated n times" message compression feature. However, this feature is > prone to causing user trouble. Some even think that it is a design flaw > (see this discussion on the loganalysis mailing list, this posting is > probably a good entry point into a lengthy thread: > http://www.loganalysis.org/pipermail/loganalysis/2008-January/000547.htm > l ). > > >From the rsyslog core engine point of view, "last message repeated n > times" is quite costly in terms of code complexity and even performance. > There is a -e command line switch to turn it off, which most users seem > to do (and those that don't do it often seem to run into troubles). > > I am very tempted to DROP this feature from future builds. That would > result in a great code complexity reduction (really, it takes a lot of > effort...) and probably also rid us of a standard trouble spot. However, > it also means that its compression features are no longer available. > > Question now: does anybody actually need this feature? If so, why is it > good? > > Please provide feedback. > > Thanks, > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog
