topic Re: messages in Operating System - Linux

messages

brian_31 — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:43:33 GMT

I am getting the following message in the messages file.
syslog-ng[4357]: STATS: dropped 0
The messages repeats over and over again. Also this machine was hung and i had to reboot the box, this machine does not have the netdump enabled so i am unable to find the root cause. does the bove message point to anything? this is redhat AS3.

THanks

Brian

Re: messages

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:52:23 GMT

Shalom,

The message is not very meaningful to me.

The cause of the hang should also be in /var/log/messages and that could be a hardware issue.

I'd boot the box of the diagnostics cd and run all hardware diagnostics.

SEP

Re: messages

Ross Minkov — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:53:59 GMT

Brian,

Syslog-ng has a built-in buffer for TCP and FIFO/named pipe destinations. When the remote end (TCP or local named pipe) can't keep up with the amount of messages that syslog-ng is trying to send in, the buffer can overflow. syslog-ng reports the number of dropped message LINES in the STATS messages. The "STATS: dropped 0" message is syslog-ng notice message, which tell you it hasn't drop any /dev/log packets.

HTH,
Ross