Re: syslogd pipelines losing messages

2005-01-24 Thread David Malone
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:39:23AM -0500, Felix Hernandez-Campos wrote: > Anyway, I think I did all the homework, and I just need someone to > suggest an elegant solution rather than my usleep (is there a > yield-type syscall?). I'm more than willing to try out your ideas in > our environment and p

syslogd pipelines losing messages

2005-01-24 Thread Felix Hernandez-Campos
Hi, I've been using syslogd to monitor a few hundred hosts, and I encountered an interesting problem, which seems to be explained by a bug in syslogd. In my work, I'm using a slow Pentium II host running FreeBSD 4.10 to collect syslog messages that arrive at a rate of at most a couple hundred mess