[systemd-devel] Forwarding to syslog missed XX messages

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 22.10.14 14:28, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:

> >Why precisely your syslog implementation is too slow is something
> >you'd have to debug on the side of theat implementation, we cannot
> >determine this from systemd's side.
> >
> >Note that rsyslog doesn't need the syslog forwarding anymore these
> >days, it picks up the messages directly from the journal. You can thus
> >turn syslog forwarding off with ForwardToSyslog=no in
> >journald.conf. In fact, very recent systemd versions actually changed
> >the default here to off, given the fact that rsyslog doesn't need this
> >any more
> 
> that is in fact the case on all of my machines
> 
> so why does systemd-journal complain about missed forwarding at all?

We increase the counter each time we try to send something to the
other syslogd and get EAGAIN back, which is an indication tht the
socket buffer is full at the moment.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat