It seems to me that if it's either added as a modification to omprog or a new ompipe then having it added to master as a default disabled option should work. Less maintenance overhead and is available for use.
-- James -- Sent from my mobile -- ----- Reply message ----- From: "Rainer Gerhards" <[email protected]> To: "rsyslog-users" <[email protected]> Subject: [rsyslog] non-C output plugins Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2014 9:04 AM On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Boylan, James <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I agree with everyone that omprog should be a good solution for this. I'm >> going to be doing some tests in the near future with omprog so I'll be >> looking at Radu's post as well. :) >> >> Mostly I think using a stdout pipe is a good way of handling this. It is >> similar to how Hadoop handles non-Java mapreduce jobs as well. >> >> > A key thing to note is that a pipe is a quite efficient inter-process > communication facility and also includes some built-in flow control (so the > reading end of the pipe can push back the writer). Of course, it requires > additional context switches, but that should not be too bad. > > An interesting thought is to write a simple write-to-file script and > measure it's performance vs. omfile. That should be an indication of the > actual pipe overhead, especially if /dev/null is written to... > > Better even: a native C program, so that we don't measure language runtime overhead... Question in this regard: should all of this go into the main repo? There are pros and cons... Rainer _______________________________________________ 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.
