syslogd drops messages when placed under heavy load
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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