Messages in this thread | | | From | (Bernd Eckenfels) | Subject | Re: syslog spiral death | Date | 7 Nov 1996 06:38:23 GMT |
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Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote: : >> longer and longer to complete. I don't know whether to consider this : >> an inefficiency in the fsync() implementation or poor behavior on the : >> part of syslogd for calling fsync() so often...
Recent syslogs support "-/var/log/file" for unimportant logfiles which dont need fsync.
: However, it is still going to be slow to fsync a large file.
Large files tend to be not that important to be fsynced, anyway :)
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