svlogd as a heavy-duty logger

[Dean Hall <deanpence@gmail.com>]

I work for a company that has a dire need for a syslog replacement, and
as a long-time daemontools and runit user, I'd like to propose a svlogd
(or similar) solution for us.

The main reservation I have is the robustness/scalability of svlogd.
Right now at our largest data center we're getting pretty constant log
input from around 40 machines. We're using syslog-ng, and it suffers
from some rather fatal problems when coupled with the traditional
logrotate program. I don't want to reintroduce stability issues with a
different technology, and my experience with svlogd is limited to
running a syslog-ish server with it (and socklog) on my personal,
three-computer network. Has anyone load-tested svlogd, or does anyone
have experience with svlogd's behavior under a heavy load?


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