syslog(3) issues

[Ian Lepore]

On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 19:50 -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 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 I filed the PR long ago, if the patches have drifted out of date I'll be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
> 

Oops, I glitched the PR number when I pasted it, this one should be
correct:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160433

-- Ian