[pgpool-general: 1679] Re: debug messages and rsyslog

Tatsuo Ishii ishii at postgresql.org
Sat May 4 08:07:59 JST 2013


> Hello,
> 
> I'm struggling a bit on this odd issue I can't understand.
> 
> I'm using pgpool-II 3.2.0 and rsyslog to log whatever comes from pgpool to /var/log/messages, everything works pretty fine when turning on any log_* statements.
> But I've noticed a big cpu usage by rsyslogd whenever I set debug_level to something other than 0. The strange thing is that I can't find any specific debug messages in /var/log/messages.
> 
> I would understand the high througput of messages on rsyslog could have an effect on my server, but I can't find any trace of debug messages on /var/log/messages.
> It would seem logic that event debug messages are sent to rsyslog but It seems like all debug messages are sent to stderr and nothing can be done about it. Is that the case ?
> 
> Thank's for you help.

If syslog is enabled, pgpool calls vsyslog with priority
"pool_config->syslog_facility | LOG_DEBUG". Are you sure that your
vsyslog configuration allows to send syslog messages to
/var/log/messages in this case?
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Tatsuo Ishii
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