flowControl

Throttles the sender when the receiver queue is nearly full.

This parameter applies to imptcp: Plain TCP Syslog.

Name:

flowControl

Scope:

input

Type:

boolean

Default:

input=on

Required?:

no

Introduced:

at least 5.x, possibly earlier

Description

Flow control is used to throttle the sender if the receiver queue is near-full preserving some space for input that can not be throttled.

Input usage

input(type="imptcp" flowControl="...")

See also

See also imptcp: Plain TCP Syslog.

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