logger: Added logger_queue_limit to the configuration options.

All log messages go to a queue serviced by a single thread
which does all the IO.  This setting controls how big that
queue can get (and therefore how much memory is allocated)
before new messages are discarded. The default is 1000.
Should something go bezerk and log tons of messages in a tight
loop, this will prevent memory escalation.

When the limit is reached, a WARNING is logged to that effect
and messages are discarded until the queue is empty again.  At
that time another WARNING will be logged with the count of
discarded messages.  There's no "low water mark" for this queue
because the logger thread empties the entire queue and processes it
in 1 batch before going back and waiting on the queue again.
Implementing a low water mark would mean additional locking as
the thread processes each message and it's not worth it.

A "test" was added to test_logger.c but since the outcome is
non-deterministic, it's really just a cli command, not a unit
test.

Change-Id: Ib4520c95e1ca5325dbf584c7989ce391649836d1

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configs/samples/logger.conf.sample b/configs/samples/logger.conf.sample
index 0fa7dcc8d..947be3a98 100644
--- a/configs/samples/logger.conf.sample
+++ b/configs/samples/logger.conf.sample
@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@
 ; Directory for log files is configures in asterisk.conf
 ; option astlogdir
 ;
+; All log messages go to a queue serviced by a single thread
+; which does all the IO.  This setting controls how big that
+; queue can get (and therefore how much memory is allocated)
+; before new messages are discarded.
+; The default is 1000
+;logger_queue_limit = 250
+;
+;
 [logfiles]
 ;
 ; Format is "filename" and then "levels" of debugging to be included: