[syslog-ng]syslog-ng's matching vs a perl-regex match

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:30:44PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> Hi all,
>  I am using syslog-ng version 1.4.12 on red hat linux 7.1. I have been 
> doing some matches to get certain events out of my logs and have certain 
> programs react to them.
>  I was wondering if it would be faster to pipe ALL output to a perl script 
> and have it do its own regex matching.
> 
> I'm not sure how fast syslog-ng's matching is and if I take a performance 
> hit by using it.

syslog-ng is using a the regexp lib in libc.

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