Enabling memory buffering

This section describes how to enable memory buffering in syslog-ng OSE.

To enable memory buffering, use the log-fifo-size() parameter in the destination. All destination drivers can use memory buffering. Use memory buffering if you want to send logs to destinations where disk-based buffering is not available. Or if you want the fastest solution, and if syslog-ng OSE crash or network downtime is never expected. In these cases, losing logs is possible. This solution does not use disk-based buffering, logs are stored only in the memory.

Example: Example for using memory buffering

destination d_BSD {
    network("127.0.0.1"
        port(3333)
        log-fifo-size(10000)
    );
};