Building a 100K log/sec Logging Infrastructure

David Lang
2012 USENIX Large Installation Systems Administration Conference  
Building a 100K log/sec logging infrastructure. contain sensitive information, and letting people who can benefit from the system get access to it. The security group had decided several years earlier to use Debian as our distribution, and since we also used our standard image for firewalls, it was a very stripped down version which included a half dozen custom compiled packages for cases where we wanted different defaults, or where newer versions had features or bugfixes that we needed that
more » ... en't backported to the versions that Debian provided. The standard when we started was Debian 3.1 32 bit, and we moved to the 64 bit build very early on in the process and were running 64 bit kernels, even with the 32 bit builds.
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