Hi David, On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:53 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > Hi, >> >> Somebody recently told me there may be some issues with rsyslog and DA >> queues (disk assisted queues).... or maybe there were in the past, circa >> rsyslog 8.2... >> >> Does anyone know if disk-based queues should be considered mature and >> reliable or still a little flakey? >> > > They are reliable, in that they work as designed. Depending on what you > are trying to do with them and what assumptions you are making about how > they work, you may be surprised. > It sounds like you are almost thinking about some common misunderstanding people have about DA queues. :) If so, can you please give me a hint? > By default, logs written to disk queues are allowed to be buffered by the > OS, so in a crash you can still end up loosing logs and/or corrupting the > last log. > Right. That's understandable. What is it that you are concerned about? I haven't actually seen them mentioned much on the ML, so I wonder if people are using them? I came across this 1 year old bug: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506 that I'd hate to hit.... but I can't tell if this was fixed in 8.x or not. Thanks, Otis -- Monitoring * Alerting * Anomaly Detection * Centralized Log Management Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ _______________________________________________ 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.
