flood of balance messages

[Jerimiah Cole]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:58 -0400, Darren wrote:
> Anyone know why these particular messages would occur at the rate of 
> several hundred per second until the 2.0gig syslog file limit was reached?
> 
> 51) 2007-10-16 07:20:00 EDT (-0400) patriot-1 dhcpd balancing pool 8109e10 citizens-paradyne total 29 free 15 backup 14 lts 0 max-own (+/-)0 
> 52) 2007-10-16 07:20:00 EDT (-0400) patriot-1 dhcpd balanced pool 8109e10 citizens-paradyne total 29 free 15 backup 14 lts 0 max-misbal 1 

I see these every 60 seconds for every pool configured for failover.
With 10,000 pools, it got pretty chatty so I patched the server to only
log when there's some sort of error in the balance process.

After looking at the man page, it looks like you can tweak the balance
interval with the min-balance and max-balance options.

I think these messages are unnecessary unless you're debugging, and can
be safely ignored.  Of course, as you pointed out, it can blow up your
logs if you have a lot of pools.

Jerimiah