[syslog-ng]FYI: Performance

[Timothy Webster]

Currently logging 39G a day and just keeping up, with
minirsyslog. The problem is the disk io is killing me. :(

each byte requires 1 write then 1 read to process and 1 read to
compress and finally 1/3 write 
1 + 1/3 write and 2 reads

I am using lzop compression, gzip just won't keep up.
And I avoid perl like the plague.
I have one second stage data analyzer script in perl and it
takes a good chunk of the resources.

Thinking of adding lzo compression directly in to syslog-ng and with
a fifo I can reduce my disk io to ~ 1/3 compressed byte per raw byte. 

Does syslog-ng have a hope here performance wise?

-tim