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Date:      Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:50:44 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
To:        attilio@freebsd.org
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: syslog(3) issues
Message-ID:  <1346637044.1140.566.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 00:35 +0100, Attilio Rao wrote:
> Hi,
> I was trying to use syslog(3) in a port application that uses
> threading , having all of them at the LOG_CRIT level. What I see is
> that when the logging gets massive (1000 entries) I cannot find some
> items within the /var/log/messages (I know because I started stamping
> also some sort of message ID in order to see what is going on). The
> missing items are in the order of 25% of what really be there.
> 
> Someone has a good idea on where I can start verifying for my syslogd
> system? I have really 0 experience with syslogd and maybe I could be
> missing something obvious.

There's a chance this PR about syslogd incorrectly calculating socket
receive buffer sizes is related and the patch attached to it could fix
it...

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=1604331

I filed the PR long ago, if the patches have drifted out of date I'll be
happy to re-work them.

-- Ian





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