[syslog-ng]SMP RH7.1

Jeremy Shaffner jshaffner@dmisi.com
Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:14:04 -0500


On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:15:22PM -0400, Christopher_Leonardos@triumph.com wrote:
> I have two DELL 2450 Server's, each with 2 1Ghz Processors, 2GB of RAM, and
> two pairs of 36GB mirrored drives on a PErc 3/si RAID Controller running RH
> 7.1 with a SMP Kernel
> 
> Question:  Will I really get any additional performance from the extra
> processor using SYSLOG-NG?

Logging doesn't involve a whole lot of computing.  It's all I/O (network
and disk.)

SMP only helps when forking or threading.

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-Jeremy