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<title>Understanding rsyslog queues</title></head>
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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>&nbsp;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
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[<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 &copy; 2008 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and
+Copyright &copy; 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>
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