syslogd drops messages when placed under heavy load

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Issue

syslogd drops collected logs when placed under heavy load by collecting logs from many multiple hosts

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • syslogd
  • Many external syslog clients exporting logs to RHEL syslog server

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