[erlang-questions] lager dropping invisible messages

[Andrew Thompson]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 03:29:45PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I'm using lager for logging and I've recently switched to lager 2.*.
> 
> I occasionally get this warning message:
> 
>   [warning] lager_error_logger_h dropped N messages in the last
> second that exceeded the limit of 50 messages/sec
> 
> where N ranges between 35-78.
> 
> However, nowhere in my logs can I find a bunch of 50 messages
> written within a second, or anything that might be linked to this
> warning.
> 
> I haven't been able to find an erlang lager mailing list.
> 
> Does anyone know if this lager warning might be warning me about
> anything important, if so what, if not how do I switch it off?

https://github.com/basho/lager#overload-protection
https://github.com/basho/lager/pull/116

Lager does not (yet) have a mailing list, but I ususally notive lager
related messages here or on riak-users.

Andrew