7 Sep
2001
7 Sep
'01
8:26 p.m.
--On Wednesday, September 05, 2001 10:34 PM +0200 Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu> wrote:
syslog-ng uses a single thread and non-blocking i/o, adding additional processors if the box doesn't do anything else is wasted.
Maybe. It all depends on your kernel. I can state with some authority that it would _not_ be wasted under Solaris 8, if you had high volumes of data. Having an additional CPU for the kernel to do network and disk I/O frees up a lot of CPU time for syslog-ng to do its thing. Now, adding a 3rd or 4th CPU may or may not improve things, but 2 is a good idea. But Linux SMP isn't very good, so your milage may vary. -- Carson Gaspar - carson@taltos.org Queen Trapped in a Butch Body