Major Description
If a tserver or master is started and there are no live tablets, glog will buffer the output indefinitely which prevents startup messages from appearing. This is confusing and might look like the server is hung.
There is a flag called --logbufsecs that controls how long glog will buffer data before flushing, but it's lazy; if another log message doesn't come in after that time, nothing will trigger the flush. There is no auto-flush thread.
The solution is to run a thread that periodically flushes all of the logs by calling google::FlushLogFiles(INFO).
