> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Roy Smith
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 4:04 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [rsyslog] Upgrading from 4.2.0 to
> 
> We're running rsyslog 4.2.0 on Ubuntu 10.04.  Recently, as we've been
> ramping up traffic, we've started experiencing frequent cases of
> rsyslogd getting wedged.  Messages stop getting forwarded to our
> central logging host, and applications writing to /dev/log start to
> block in sendto() calls.  Restarting rsyslogd gets things going again
> (for a while).  We're currently processing about  10 million logged
> lines per day per application server.
> 
> It looks like the latest and greatest is 6.2.2.  We're thinking of
> installing that to see if it solves our problems.  Are there any
> backwards compatibility issues we should be aware of between 6.2.2 and
> 4.2.0?

There should be none, but it probably is a good idea to go through the relevant 
compatibility docs:

http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v5compatibility.html
http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v6compatibility.html

Rainer
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