Comment 1 for bug 439550

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Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) wrote :

Any news here?

Note that the worst side-effect of this is that
those zillions of log messages fill up the harddisk.

For example see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557000
and
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656197

Regardless whether or not a syslog service filters out
duplicate log messages, first and foremost the applications
which send log messages to a syslog service must care
not to flood the syslog service with unlimited messages
(regadless if same or different messages) at the same time.