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 > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog
