Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: fsync on large files | Date | Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:42:17 +0100 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> > lots of things trying to talk to syslogd. But syslogd can't accept their > > connections because it is contantly fsync'ing, so the other daemons block > > trying to connect. > > The real fix for this problem would be to use a syslogd which uses datagram > sockets instead. (Both libc5 and glibc understand them.)
Which means, when syslogd is really overloaded, silently throwing away half of the messages. Hmph.
Olaf
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