[systemd-devel] rsyslog drops messages in debug mode

[Michael Biebl]

2011/3/18 Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:03:01 +0100
> Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> when booting with systemd.log_level=debug, I get
>>
>> Mar 18 06:39:26 pluto rsyslogd-2177: imuxsock begins to drop messages
>> from pid 1 due to rate-limiting
>> ...
>> Mar 18 06:39:31 pluto rsyslogd-2177: imuxsock lost 127 messages from
>> pid 1 due to rate-limiting
>>
>> Note: I didn't explicitly use systemd.log_target=kmsg
>>
>
> I believe it's an rsyslog (imuxsock module) newer feature to limit flow
> from extra-verbose apps by default, which you can tune or completely
> bypass, as described in the docs:
>

I know that (and I forgot to add that I use rsyslog 5.7.8).
My point rather is, that for a default rsyslog + systemd installation
imho this should not happen.
I'm wondering if the default values in rsyslog are too aggressive in
that regard?

Michael



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