When a file was appended with 33,333 syslog entries a second, both the SAM aggregate server and the SAM presentation server processed 58.65 notifications per second in a SAM 8.0 environment.

SAM 8.0 Syslog adapter using the --tail option benchmarking results defines the results for a syslog adapter using the --tail option configuration.

Table 1. SAM 8.0 Syslog adapter using the --tail option benchmarking results

Syslog Adapter

Adapter Platform (OI)

SAM 8.0aggregate server

SAM 8.0 presentation server

Syslog Rate

58.69 S/s

58.69 N/s

58.65 N/s

58.65 N/s

Legend

S/s – Syslogs per second

N/s – Notifications per second