Re: syslog by default?

From: Giles Lean <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: syslog by default?
Date: 2001-09-11 21:56:11
Message-ID: 10243.1000245371@nemeton.com.au
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> I know it can have an adverse effect on a mail server, is syslog going
> to give us any performance hits?

Yes. On some platforms (HP-UX at least) applications can stall ~2s
retrying if syslogd is not reading the messages written to its pipe.

syslogd also has a reputation for using too much CPU under load, but
this is annecdotal only -- I've not seen such a situation myself.

Regards,

Giles

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