[rsyslog] Rsyslog stops relaying messages

2016-12-01 Thread Arik Mitschang
Hi Rsyslog users, We have been periodically experiencing an issue with our rsyslog setup where some RELP relay nodes appear to fill up their queue and stop processing any messages. Our log flow essentially is made up of a number of "clients" that send messages over RELP to one or more "relay"

Re: [rsyslog] Rsyslog stops relaying messages

2016-12-05 Thread Arik Mitschang
Hi David, > the problem is probably not on the system that stops forwarding messages, but > rather on the system they are forwarding the messages to. > > When the queues fill up, unles you have configured rsyslog to throw away > messages, it will stop accepting any new messages as it can't put