Re: Syslog query - I'm probably doing something stoopid

From: those who know me have no need of my name (not-a-real-address@usa.net)
Date: 05/21/02 

From: those who know me have no need of my name <not-a-real-address@usa.net>
Date: 21 May 2002 07:39:28 GMT

<Xns921563C5BB70Cnospamforme@203.50.2.86> divulged:

>I don't know exactly how many it can handle,

usually the upper limit is primarily based on the disk i/o load, followed
by the network i/o load.

>it starts to lag if I log above one or two a second. Pretty pathetic eh?

yes, that's very slow, even on horrible hardware. hopefully it's because
of dns, as barry suggested. you can test it (provided you are still
unsure) by starting syslogd with `-n' to disable the dns queries.

make sure that your daemon doesn't sync after each write if you become i/o
bound and the data can afford to be lost (often *.=debug), e.g., by using
`|/usr/bin/tee file /dev/null'. 

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