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Subject: Re: performance issues
From: Andrew McNamara (andrewmconnect.com.au)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 21:08:17 CDT

> For 53.191 messages/second. Hmm -- I wonder if it's the Solaris
>version of syslog that is hurting me here, what with it almost
>certainly doing an fflush() after every write....

If you're using Solaris 2.6 or greater, the syslog writes are no longer
syncronous. A quick test on a recently patched U5 2.6 box, ufs
/var/log, no journalling or presto gave me about 2000 syslog messages
per second.

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