From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/813 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dean Hall Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: svlogd as a heavy-duty logger Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 01:01:12 -0400 Message-ID: <428ACC2E.5090000@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116392570 16030 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2005 05:02:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 05:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1049-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Wed May 18 07:02:46 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYGfb-0006M0-HQ for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 07:00:35 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 10900 invoked by uid 76); 18 May 2005 05:01:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 10894 invoked from network); 18 May 2005 05:01:36 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:x-enigmail-version:x-enigmail-supports:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=A42RXG8MVFwEY+ZVo+1hitPuqSmOhyKO9e6oYc4ZPGcY6d3DgFxzBmlvNWmo58cqeITnooHzHQC+qv3WsVFH1wv8mxHUej5CHXtmIdRH75HGl8uAH9VuEeq8T5AjQRfA+bJXoKd90mLTmDuDno7UEljm0JDRmlzONaXDqw24vzk= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:813 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:813 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? d