[syslog-ng]SMP RH7.1

[Carson Gaspar]

--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.

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Carson Gaspar - carson@taltos.org
Queen Trapped in a Butch Body