Andrew Ross
Mon, 10 May 2004 05:45:18 -0700
Hi All, Can anyone tell me why we are talking about 16MB syslog messages at all? I thought the spirit of syslog was a quick, human readable, single lined, informational message that can be logged to disk and be parsed by a reporting tool. Even taking into account UTF-8 encoding and the possibility of some binary data, do we *really* need 16MB? 1024 bytes does nicely in most cases, taking the max to 64KB is workable, but taking it to 16MB is just making a rod for our own backs. Even on a nice machine with stacks of memory, having to buffer and rebuild 16MB multipart messages will just be a nightmare. If we want to send huge dumps of binary data, we should use TFTP or FTP to transfer it. Let's keep the concept of syslog to something that is sensible. Thoughts? Andrew