[syslog-ng]too much time() ?

Balazs Scheidler syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:35:58 +0100


On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:13 -0600, Dave Johnson wrote:
> We did some maintaince on our sol9 central syslog-ng server 
> recently running syslog-ng v1.6.4, and noticed something...
> 
> truss -p on the syslog-ng process shows an abundant number of time() calls.  
> The ratio of time() to read()/write()s were a factor of 20-40x.  
> 
> * This is even with use_time_recv(no); in the global options.
> 
> I'm trying to understand if this is something that could be cut down
> some or if its a standard solaris process overhead...  ?

It probably could be reduced somewhat, though currently I have no such
intention myself.

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Bazsi