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<title>Understanding rsyslog queues</title></head>
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<h1>Understanding rsyslog Queues</h1>
<p>Rsyslog uses queues whenever two activities need to be loosely coupled. With a
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If it, for example, is set to four, no more than four workers will ever be
started, no matter how many elements are enqueued. </p>
<p>Worker threads that have been started are kept running until an inactivity
-timeout happens. The timeout can be set via "<i>$&lt;object&gt;QueueWorkerTimeoutShutdown</i>"
+timeout happens. The timeout can be set via "<i>$&lt;object&gt;QueueWorkerTimeoutThreadShutdown</i>"
and is specified in milliseconds. If you do not like to keep the workers
running, simply set it to 0, which means immediate timeout and thus immediate
shutdown. But consider that creating threads involves some overhead, and this is
-why we keep them running.</p>
+why we keep them running. If you would like to never shutdown any worker
+threads, specify -1 for this parameter.</p>
<h2>Discarding Messages</h2>
<p>If the queue reaches the so called "discard watermark" (a number of queued
elements), less important messages can automatically be discarded. This is in an
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parameters, because not all are applicable. For example, in current output
module design, actions do not support multi-threading. Consequently, the number
of worker threads is fixed to one for action queues and can not be changed.</p>
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+[<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">rsyslog.conf</a>]
+[<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
+<a href="http://www.adiscon.com/">Adiscon</a>. Released under the GNU GPL
+version 2 or higher.</font></p>
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