Thanks Yaroslav! I did a similar search that did not yield any helpful results but this one did. I ended up finding out that in OSX you have to modify /etc/asl.conf by adding this line to the end of it:

**= dup_delay 0**

and then either rebooting the machine or restarting syslog with

**sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist**

Now it works as expected.