From e6b184ad84e055c7272c41706c2fd8f86f6ac056 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Gerhards Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:53:07 +0200 Subject: doc: documented way to turn off imuxsock ratelimiting --- doc/imuxsock.html | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/imuxsock.html b/doc/imuxsock.html index 1ab99a76..4dd28f26 100644 --- a/doc/imuxsock.html +++ b/doc/imuxsock.html @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ config statements just use the prefix $IMUXSockRateLimit... but otherwise works exactly the same. When working with severities, please keep in mind that higher severity numbers mean lower severity and configure things accordingly. +To turn off rate limiting, set the interval to zero.

Unix log sockets can be flow-controlled. That is, if processing queues fill up, the unix socket reader is blocked for a short while. This may be useful to prevent overruning the queues (which may cause exessive disk-io where it actually would not be needed). However, @@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ the implications. Note that for many systems, turning on flow control does not h

  • $InputUnixListenSocketFlowControl [on/off] - specifies if flow control should be applied to the next socket.
  • $IMUXSockRateLimitInterval [number] - specifies the rate-limiting -interval in seconds. Default value is 5 seconds. +interval in seconds. Default value is 5 seconds. Set it to 0 to turn rate limiting off.
  • $IMUXSockRateLimitBurst [number] - specifies the rate-limiting burst in number of messages. Default is 200. @@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ be obtained from the log socket itself. If so, the TAG part of the message is re It is recommended to turn this option on, but the default is "off" to keep compatible with earlier versions of rsyslog. This option was introduced in 5.7.0.
  • $SystemLogRateLimitInterval [number] - specifies the rate-limiting -interval in seconds. Default value is 5 seconds. +interval in seconds. Default value is 5 seconds. Set it to 0 to turn rate limiting off.
  • $SystemLogRateLimitBurst [number] - specifies the rate-limiting burst in number of messages. Default is 200. -- cgit