Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: fsync on large files | Date | Sat, 13 Feb 1999 12:26:42 +0100 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> high and gradually getting worse. Today we realized that there is a weekly > cycle to it, and it matches the cycle of the log rotation of > /var/log/messages. As this log file grows (currently 36 megs with 2 days left > before rotation) and beyond, with syslogd fsync'ing every line it writes, > syslogd hangs for long periods of time, and when syslogd is hung, lots of
The first thing I would do with log files that size is rotating daily.
Olaf
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