Re: syslog-ng to replace syslogd

[Russell Coker <russell coker com au>]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:49, Iago Rubio <iago rubio hispalinux es> wrote:
> ITOH it's buffered architecture make it really bad for developers or
> kernel debuggers as log messages does not arise instantly, but when the
> buffer is big enought to write it out (the buffering can be disabled).

How is this different from the regular syslogd?

I have configured lots of machines with the "-" option on all log files to use 
buffering and reduce IO load.  I haven't found any great problems with that, 
often a kernel bug will break even non-buffered disk IO...

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