Hi Hank, On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 06:19:19PM -0800, Hank A. Paulson wrote: > Willie - From Fedora 8 on, they have been using rsyslog by default not > syslog. rsyslog is similar in goals and features to syslog-ng: > http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsyslog_ng_comparison.html For instance, it can > cache to a local disk if your remote logging server is not reachable.
yes, I know rsyslog is very featureful. But on last tests I ran on it quite some time ago, it could not cope with high loads as well as syslog-ng. I've had syslog-ng log 40000 lines per second in production on a cheap dual-core opteron machine. Maybe it's just that I don't know how to tune it for high perf. Also, the author himself says the config file format is syslog-compatible but ugly, which no one will deny :-) However if you're able to configure it for very high loads, I'm very much interested because it would simplify deployments on RHEL5/CentOS which are fairly common these days. Regards, Willy
