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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2009-04-21 16:32:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2009-04-21 16:32:33 +0200 |
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diff --git a/doc/queues.html b/doc/queues.html index 41c5865f..4a9509a0 100644 --- a/doc/queues.html +++ b/doc/queues.html @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="de"> <title>Understanding rsyslog queues</title></head> <body> <a href="rsyslog_conf_global.html">back</a> @@ -10,6 +9,13 @@ queue, one part of the system "produces" something while another part "consumes" this something. The "something" is most often syslog messages, but queues may also be used for other purposes.</p> +<p>This document provides a good insight into technical details, operation modes +and implications. In addition to it, an +<a href="queues_analogy.html">rsyslog queue concepts overview</a> document +exists which tries to explain queues with the help of some analogies. This may +probably be a better place to start reading about queues. I assume that once you +have understood that document, the material here will be much easier to grasp +and look much more natural. <p>The most prominent example is the main message queue. Whenever rsyslog receives a message (e.g. locally, via UDP, TCP or in whatever else way), it places these messages into the main message queue. Later, it is dequeued by the @@ -18,7 +24,7 @@ front of each action, there is also a queue, which potentially de-couples the filter processing from the actual action (e.g. writing to file, database or forwarding to another host).</p> <h1>Where are Queues Used?</h1> -<p> Currently, queues are used for the main message queue and for the +<p>Currently, queues are used for the main message queue and for the actions.</p> <p>There is a single main message queue inside rsyslog. Each input module delivers messages to it. The main message queue worker filters messages based on @@ -354,8 +360,8 @@ save.</p> [<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog site</a>]</p> <p><font size="2">This documentation is part of the <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog</a> project.<br> -Copyright © 2008 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and +Copyright © 2008, 2009 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and <a href="http://www.adiscon.com/">Adiscon</a>. Released under the GNU GPL -version 2 or higher.</font></p> +version 3 or higher.</font></p> </body></html> |