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From: Kangkook Jee <aixer77@gmail.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Accounting audit messages dropped from kernel
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:12:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8274C9A8-F136-4A46-A727-EAF34A4E2D59@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi, all

I'm running a customized user-level audit client and getting the following messages from /var/log/kern.log every now and then. 
The message seems like that it is dropping audit messages due to buffer limitations. 


Dec 11 21:46:56 hostname-10 kernel: [2081500.871616] audit_log_start: 109700 callbacks suppressed
Dec 11 21:46:56 hostname-10 kernel: [2081500.871620] audit: audit_backlog=102401 > audit_backlog_limit=102400
Dec 11 21:46:56 hostname-10 kernel: [2081500.871622] audit: audit_lost=-295739022 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=102400
Dec 11 21:46:56 hostname-10 kernel: [2081500.871623] audit: backlog limit exceeded
Dec 11 21:46:56 hostname-10 kernel: [2081500.871646] audit: audit_backlog=102401 > audit_backlog_limit=102400
Dec 11 21:46:56 hostname-10 kernel: [2081500.871647] audit: audit_lost=-295739021 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=102400
Dec 11 21:46:56 hostname-10 kernel: [2081500.871648] audit: backlog limit exceeded
Dec 11 21:46:56 hostname-10 kernel: [2081500.871657] audit: audit_backlog=102401 > audit_backlog_limit=102400
Dec 11 21:46:56 hostname-10 kernel: [2081500.871659] audit: audit_lost=-295739020 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=102400
Dec 11 21:46:56 hostname-10 kernel: [2081500.871660] audit: backlog limit exceeded
Dec 11 21:46:56 hostname-10 kernel: [2081500.871665] audit: audit_backlog=102401 > audit_backlog_limit=102400

What I want to know more from this is that how many messages we are missing. 
For this, can I simply refer audit_lost field? or I also need to consider the value from " callbacks suppressed" line?

If anyone can help with this it will be very helpful.

Regards, Kangkook

             reply	other threads:[~2014-12-11 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-11 22:12 Kangkook Jee [this message]
2014-12-12 16:31 ` Accounting audit messages dropped from kernel Steve Grubb
2014-12-12 19:16   ` Richard Guy Briggs

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