[syslog-ng] performance

Hamilton, Andrew Mr. HamiltonA@hq.5sigcmd.army.mil
Tue, 9 May 2000 08:17:05 +0200


I get at least 2 gigs per day and have no obvious performance problems.  I
also use that same machine to run one of our network monitoring tools and
have seen no performance problems associated with either one.  It is a Sun
Ultra 30.

Drew

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> From:	Balazs Scheidler [SMTP:bazsi@balabit.hu]
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> Subject:	Re: [syslog-ng] performance
> 
> > 	How syslog-ng deals with high-volume logging? The old syslogd is
> very bad
> > in this respect; if you feed it with lots of logs, the system slows down
> > horribly.
> > 	So, how does syslog-ng behaves in such cases?
> 
> I don't have exact numbers, and I know a couple of places where CPU usage
> could be improved in syslog-ng. Nevertheless syslog-ng is used at least at
> one site where there's more than 2gigs of logs a day.
> 
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