[email protected] writes: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> *.* /dev/tty8 >> $ActionQueueType LinkedList >> $ActionResumeRetryCount -1 >> $WorkDirectory /var/cache/rsyslog >> $ActionQueueFileName spitzer_queue >> *.* :omrelp:spitzer:2514 >> >> Now I am getting all the messages on spitzer, but also the boot process >> slows down to a crawl. Looking at tty8, I can see that while the first >> kernel log messages just rush by, at some point the messages appear very >> slowly, at maybe 1 message per second. I suspect that this is what slows >> down the booting. >> >> Also, according to lsof, the rsyslog process does not seem to open any >> file in /var/cache/rsyslog, even though it has the right permissions. > > It's been a while, but I seem to remember seeing rsyslog open and > close the files frequently, so you may not catch them open with lsof. > try running strace against it and log something while the VPN is down > and see if you see files opened and closed.
When I disconnected the VPN and created enough syslog messages, the files indeed showed up. However, the slowdown that I observe during system boot did not appear. Is there anything special about messages from the kernel? Or a way to get rsyslogd be more verbose about what it's doing and why? Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards
