[FLUME-690] Make buffer limit configurable for SyslogTcpSourceThreads

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.4
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.5
• Component/s: Sinks+Sources
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Disabled imported user
• Created: 28/Jun/11 17:04
• Updated: 05/Nov/14 10:32
• Resolved: 05/Nov/14 10:32

Description

In FLUME-681 we introduced a hard-coded upper limit of 100,000 messages in the internal buffer. This should be configurable, either via the source config or the XML file. See review board for some further discussion:

https://review.cloudera.org/r/1846/

Issue Links

• is blocked by: FLUME-681 High message rate with SyslogTcpSourceThreads can lead to OOM