Ah. I was misreading what you meant by the 1m. Ok. That actually helps considerably.
Thank you very much! -- James -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Lang Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:56 AM To: rsyslog-users Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Does rsyslog use ephemeral ports? On Tue, 14 May 2013, Boylan, James wrote: > Oh! I missed the P. > > I'll have to look into that. Our log servers are handling considerably > more than 1mb/sec so I'm going to have to figure out a means of > testing this overall performance. David was saying that he had heard > of people sending 1mb/sec using imtcp. Do we have any estimates on what > imptcp could handle? > not 1MB/sec, 1M messages/sec several hundred times more traffic I've maxed out Gig-E with rsyslog at 380K messages/sec and other people with 10Gig-E have reported getting to 1 million messages per second. David Lang > -- James > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rainer > Gerhards > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:51 AM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Does rsyslog use ephemeral ports? > > im*p*tcp I said, not imtcp ;) > > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Boylan, James <[email protected]>wrote: > >> We'll definitely be using imtcp in the short term, though we are >> considering imrhelp in the long term. >> >> -- James >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rainer Gerhards >> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:45 AM >> To: rsyslog-users >> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Does rsyslog use ephemeral ports? >> >> If you don't need TLS, I recommend imptcp as an input. It handles >> even larger loads and uses less CPU (but is linux specific). >> >> Rainer >> >> >> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Boylan, James >> <[email protected] >>> wrote: >> >>> I'm investigating issues with the current syslog server that is >>> running in our environment. The information I had found was they >>> were running into issues with the instances reaching a connection >>> limit on the port that resulted in them running multiple instances. >>> >>> I'm beginning to suspect it had more to do with how the connections >>> were being managed than a set limit of how many connections were >>> being able to be supported by the specific fixed port. >>> >>> Thanks David. Based on the performance I've been seeing with >>> Rsyslog, the fact that is also uses a fixed port supports my theory. >>> >>> -- James >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto: >>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of David Lang >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:31 AM >>> To: rsyslog-users >>> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Does rsyslog use ephemeral ports? >>> >>> On Tue, 14 May 2013, Boylan, James wrote: >>> >>>> Greetings! >>>> >>>> I'm trying to get a better idea on the number of connections a >>>> single >>> Rsyslog server can support. I currently have it running in our >>> pre-production environment as a smoke test for performance, but I >>> want to check on this prior to moving it into our production environment. >>>> >>>> Does it use ephemeral ports or is it using a static port with a >>>> finite >>> amount of load it can handle? >>> >>> It uses ephemeral ports as the source for outbound connections, the >>> way just about everything does. >>> >>> It uses fixed ports for inbound connections, the way just about >>> everything does. >>> >>> people have reported rsyslog handling 1M logs/sec, and this is not >>> limited by the network ports. What are you referring to when you say >>> "a static port with a finite amount of load it can handle"? >>> >>> David Lang >>> _______________________________________________ >>> rsyslog mailing list >>> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >>> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >>> What's up with rsyslog? 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