Re: [logs] Re: syslogd / some analysis

From: arkat_private
Date: Wed Jan 30 2002 - 06:12:39 PST

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    And we've found that not only syslogd is the problem, kernel message queue
    may drop messages or even parts of them on certain conditions on heavy loaded
    BSD system :( and there seems to be no workaround yet.
    
    "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjrat_private> said :
    
    > Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
    > >Conclusions:
    > >syslogd is decidedly not OK for loads in the 10,000 messages/second range on
    > >        my machine
    > 
    > I didn't add the obvious: "which is ridiculous"
    > 
    > A machine capable of servicing thousands of web hits/second should be
    > capable of logging them without dropping them on the floor. :)  To aggregate
    > large amounts of logs, 10,000 messages/second might not be an extraordinary
    > number, assuming some buffering and sane handling of I/O on the host and
    > the network. I don't think I'd want to try to insert 10,000 records/second into
    > a SQL database, even using bulk inserts. ;) So one implication is that for
    > really big-ass (yes, that's the technical term...) logging servers prefiltering
    > and coalescing will be a requirement. Of course coalescing _fast_ is a real
    > challenge... ;)
    
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