Thanks to both of you for the quick response. I can see how it's a fair warning in the doc, and I could have just ran some tests...but this saves me a lot of time.
-----Original Message----- From: Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> Reply-To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> Date: Monday, November 25, 2013 2:41 PM To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] mitigating periodic statistics perf impact >I need to re-word that. Its from the initial release. Practice has shown >its usually less than 1% on very busy servers (e.g 300,000 mps vs >297,000mps). If its not high end, you don't notice it... > >Sent from phone, thus brief. >Am 25.11.2013 19:41 schrieb "Robert McIntyre" <[email protected]>: > >> I've been using impstats on a modest (60k+ mps) server, and haven't >> noticed any difference with stats enabled/disabled. >> >> --Robert >> ________________________________ >> From: Mike Hoskins (michoski)<mailto:[email protected]> >> Sent: 11/25/2013 10:22 AM >> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> Subject: [rsyslog] mitigating periodic statistics perf impact >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I've recently moved several environments from syslog-ng to rsyslog, and >> still working to fully integrate with various other tools like graphite >> and elasticsearch. >> >> As part of that, one of the things I was looking at was enabling >>impstats >> for shoving metrics into graphite. That said, the environments in >> question are heavily utilized so I was wondering how much of a >>performance >> impact this typically has for busier sites, and looking for good advice >> along those lines (e.g. if it's ok to enable with proper tuning)? >> >> For those running larger sites, how do you gather stats while minimizing >> the performance impact? I am coming from a newbie-just-read-the-docs >> perspective -- seeing verbiage like "Note that loading this module has >> impact on rsyslog performance. Depending on settings, this impact may be >> noticeable (for high-load environments)" and not sure if it's a general >> warning or if enabling impstats will really upset my users. ;-) >> >> Thanks for any guidance. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad >> of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you >> DON'T LIKE THAT. >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad >> of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you >> DON'T LIKE THAT. >_______________________________________________ >rsyslog mailing list >http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad >of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you >DON'T LIKE THAT. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
