How to disable rsyslog Rate-Limiting in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?
Issue
- system log is not working, restarting
rsyslogd/crondto make it working again. - The following messages have been reported in
/var/log/messages:
Jul 3 08:50:16 localhost rsyslogd-2177: imuxsock lost 838 messages from pid 4713 due to rate-limiting
Jul 3 08:50:17 localhost rsyslogd-2177: imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 4713 due to rate-limiting
- How to disable rsyslog
rate-limitingin order to prevent these messages?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- rsyslog-5.8
- rsyslog7
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