BUFFER_QUEUE_LIMIT variable in logging-fluentd DaemonSet is not honoured

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Issue

After increasing the fluentd loglevel, we have found that fluentd pod is not honoring the env variable BUFFER_QUEUE_LIMIT, because of this, we can see the following error:

2018-06-07 11:47:02 +0200 [debug]: buffer queue is full. Wait 1 second to re-emit events
2018-06-07 11:47:04 +0200 [debug]: buffer queue is full. Wait 1 second to re-emit events
2018-06-07 11:47:05 +0200 [debug]: buffer queue is full. Wait 1 second to re-emit events
2018-06-07 11:47:06 +0200 [debug]: buffer queue is full. Wait 1 second to re-emit events
2018-06-07 11:47:07 +0200 [debug]: buffer queue is full. Wait 1 second to re-emit events
2018-06-07 11:47:08 +0200 [debug]: buffer queue is full. Wait 1 second to re-emit events

Environment

OCP 3.x

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