[syslog-ng] Multi-threading Syslog-ng

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Wed May 10 12:14:36 CEST 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 09:48 -0600, jarrod.schous at sasktel.sk.ca wrote:
> Is syslog-ng capable of multi-threading?. I.E. Can it distribute its 
> processing requirements accross multiple CPU's.  I have seen a couple side 
> notes that say it isn't but I was wondering if there is a definitive 
> answer.

It isn't, but syslog-ng is usually I/O bound and not processor bound,
except maybe when a lot of regexp based filtering is performed.

-- 
Bazsi



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