Re: [PATCH 2/2] daemon: Limit default log level to journald to VIR_LOG_INFO

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On 08/12/14 20:03, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 04:34:37PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
>> Libvirt is really chatty when the DEBUG log level is enabled. When a
>> host uses journald we'd enable debug logging to journald when only
>> specifying the debug log level. As journald may employ rate throttling
>> this would lock up the daemon until it's able to flush all debug
>> messages.
>>
>> This patch changes the default log level to VIR_LOG_INFO when using the
>> default (unconfigured) log output to journald.
>>
>> To still allow debug logging to journad the user now has to explicitly
>> specify journald as a log output with priority 1 in the "log_outputs"
>> configuration option. This patch also changes the config file template
>> to be explicit about this change and notify the user about the possible
>> consequence of debug logging into journald.
>>
>> Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121955
>> ---
>>  daemon/libvirtd.c    | 10 +++++++++-
>>  daemon/libvirtd.conf |  4 ++++
>>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/daemon/libvirtd.c b/daemon/libvirtd.c
>> index 946081a..2783c97 100644
>> --- a/daemon/libvirtd.c
>> +++ b/daemon/libvirtd.c
>> @@ -678,7 +678,15 @@ daemonSetupLogging(struct daemonConfig *config,
>>          (godaemon || !isatty(STDIN_FILENO))) {
>>          char *tmp;
>>          if (access("/run/systemd/journal/socket", W_OK) >= 0) {
>> -            if (virAsprintf(&tmp, "%d:journald", virLogGetDefaultPriority()) < 0)
>> +            virLogPriority priority = virLogGetDefaultPriority();
>> +
>> +            /* By default we don't want to log too much stuff into journald as
>> +             * it may employ rate limiting and thus blocking libvirt execution.
>> +             */
>> +            if (priority == VIR_LOG_DEBUG)
>> +                priority = VIR_LOG_INFO;
>> +
>> +            if (virAsprintf(&tmp, "%d:journald", priority) < 0)
>>                  goto error;
>>              virLogParseOutputs(tmp);
>>              VIR_FREE(tmp);
> 
> ACK, matches what I suggested we do previously.

I've fixed the typos/grammar pointed out by Eric and pushed this series.

> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 

Peter


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