> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 10:08 AM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Difference between versions > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > >> 4 is after a bunch of rapid developement, it's starting to appear in > some > >> distros > > > > So is 4 likely to be discontinued, or will 4 leapfrog 5 and become 6? > > 4 will go into stable mode like 3 is now. 4 and 5 were under > development > at the same time, but the changes for 5 were so drastic that Rainer > didn't > feel comfortable doing them in the normal development version. 4 > settled > down a few months ago, it looks like 5 is settling down now. I think we > have already hit one bug that may not end up getting fixed in 4 as the > fix > would be too invasive (when Rainer declares a version stable he is > _very_ > careful about changes to it, even if that means leaving something > broken > to avoid a substantial risk of breaking other things)
Let me elaborate a bit on the v4 bug. There are some situations in the v4 queue engine, that will lead to an unclean shutdown, maybe even a hang condition (based on the configuration). To fix this, I would need to rewrite the v4 queue engine very much in the same way as the v5 engine is (minus some things, but it is a *very* substantial change). Rather than spending time on that, I accept this issue as it is, and recommend to move to v5 for those few that are affected. Thankfully, with 5.3.6 we will have a real stable v5 soon. Note that the v4 bug is *very unlikely* to show up - you need many queues, various queing params (I don't know all of them out of my head) and it will happen only very occasionally. Rainer _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
