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datalust / seq-forwarder

Local collection and reliable forwarding of log data to Seq
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32-bit architecture support #10

Closed nblumhardt closed 7 years ago

nblumhardt commented 8 years ago

The forwarder can currently run only on 64-bit machines.

As LMDB is used for the back-end, buffer file size is limited to 4 GB on 32-bit, but because the forwarder needs additional space to allow for fragmentation - stored data vs. footprint, and to provide adequate additional space when data is received while purging is in progress, the usable buffer space is less.

LMDB is a great storage format for this scenario because of its recovery-free design (vs. others using WAL which may require manual intervention to recover from time to time). That benefit aside, we probably want to use an alternative on 32-bit systems.

bbrandt commented 8 years ago

There's still 32-bit systems running out there? :smile:

nblumhardt commented 7 years ago

Going to close this and see what we find in practice - I think there are probably higher-impact things to work on in this repository for now.