[syslog-ng] performance

Balazs Scheidler bazsi@balabit.hu
Mon, 8 May 2000 14:37:09 +0200


> 	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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