From 48cef29504b1ffc0df9929f2d8b2af2ad74d2b4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vito Caputo Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:11:44 -0800 Subject: journal: normalize priority of logging sources The stream event source has a priority of SD_EVENT_PRIORITY_NORMAL+5, and stdout source +10, but the native and syslog event sources are left at the default of 0. As a result, any heavy native or syslog logger can cause starvation of the other loggers. This is trivially demonstrated by running: dd if=/dev/urandom bs=8k | od | systemd-cat & # native spammer systemd-run echo hello & # stream logger journalctl --follow --output=verbose --no-pager --identifier=echo & ... and wait, and wait, the "hello" never comes. Now kill %1, "hello" arrives finally. --- src/journal/journald-stream.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'src/journal/journald-stream.c') diff --git a/src/journal/journald-stream.c b/src/journal/journald-stream.c index 131fcdac42..90884b6929 100644 --- a/src/journal/journald-stream.c +++ b/src/journal/journald-stream.c @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ int server_open_stdout_socket(Server *s) { if (r < 0) return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to add stdout server fd to event source: %m"); - r = sd_event_source_set_priority(s->stdout_event_source, SD_EVENT_PRIORITY_NORMAL+10); + r = sd_event_source_set_priority(s->stdout_event_source, SD_EVENT_PRIORITY_NORMAL+5); if (r < 0) return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to adjust priority of stdout server event source: %m"); -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf