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Re: syslog by default?

Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> — 2001-09-11T21:56:11Z

> I know it can have an adverse effect on a mail server, is syslog going
> to give us any performance hits?

Yes.  On some platforms (HP-UX at least) applications can stall ~2s
retrying if syslogd is not reading the messages written to its pipe.

syslogd also has a reputation for using too much CPU under load, but
this is annecdotal only -- I've not seen such a situation myself.

Regards,

Giles