From 2b76241630aa93218c8853a110251dd71478429e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Gerhards Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:57:26 +0200 Subject: doc: noted disk queue format change from v4->v5 --- doc/v5compatibility.html | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/v5compatibility.html b/doc/v5compatibility.html index 6d60062f..cc875b7b 100644 --- a/doc/v5compatibility.html +++ b/doc/v5compatibility.html @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ available. This processing was redundant and had a lot a drawbacks. For details, please see the rsyslog v4 compatibility notes which elaborate on the reasons and the (few) things you may need to change. +

Queue on-disk format

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The queue information file format has been changed. When upgrading from v4 to +v5, make sure that the queue is emptied and no on-disk structure present. We did +not go great length in understanding the old format, as there was too little demand +for that (and it being quite some effort if done right).

Queue Worker Thread Shutdown

Previous rsyslog versions had the capability to "run" on zero queue worker if no work was required. This was done to save a very limited number of resources. However, -- cgit