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SubjectRe: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x
On 23 Oct 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
>So I have the glibc maintainer (and others) saying that syslog
>messages should never be dropped, and you saying that named should be
>dropping its syslog messages.

No, I didn't say they "should" be dropped but merely that dropping them
would fix your problem. Personally, I'd look closely at your setup to
determine exactly why this has become a problem. named is being blocked
on writing to /dev/log. This should only happen if there is sufficient
_local_ syslog traffic to fill the buffer or syslogd has too much remote
traffic to ever read from /dev/log.

Per chance are you running the name service caching daemon (nscd)? I'd
also guess you aren't disabling fsync() for your sysylog files (it's part
of the syslog.conf format) -- this is a conciderable drain on syslogd.

--Ricky


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