On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 02:56:37PM -0700, Jason Baker wrote:
> On virtually all unices, syslog wants to sync the disk each time it writes a
> single record. If you're getting a huge amount of them, your system can
> spend an obscene amount of time syncing to disk over and over.
>
> The - tells it to be less rigorous about syncing, instead it'll cache them
> for a while, then dump them all to disk in one shot. I recall massive
> performance improvements on an old AViiON 3000 (or similar) 33 MHz box.
>
> Just keep in mind that this means you could/will lose log data on those files
> if the power suddenly drops out.

Apologies for carrying on the off-topic thread...

Does FreeBSD softupdates

1. Alleviate syslog sync'ing?

2. Reduce likelihood of losing logs upon power trip or whatnot?

Thanks. Cheers.

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