forwarder: optionally drop messages instead of applying backpressure about oklog HOT 4 OPEN

That's fine, but then you'll want to use another log forwarding tool like svlogd — oklog forward will never be in the business of managing files on disk.

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No reason to bring in a dependency for this. My intuition is that a custom little ringbuffer should work fine. Happy to consider anything you come up with, though.

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Interesting.

The standard library 'ring' package https://golang.org/pkg/container/ring/ seems a little overkill for a byte slice.

Something akin to this might be a more straightforward fit https://github.com/armon/circbuf/blob/master/circbuf.go . Prolly needs a mutex though.

If I find time I'll have a play and send a PR.

From there I'd love to expose a function to forward programatically in-app ... one step at a time eh.
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An option that I think I'd want to use in our production systems is neither backpressure (I don't want to slow down our workers due to what I hope is a temporary slowdown in ingestion rate) nor drop log lines but instead locally buffer the data on the local file system.

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