Re: performance problems

["Dan Melomedman" <dmelomed@devonitnet.com>]

Adam Williams writes: 

> file name with a hypen.  /var/log/ldap becomes -/var/log/ldap

It suffers from other problems however. It's busy with logging other 
daemons' activity, it usually doesn't have automatic rotation feature, and 
it usually could care less about filling up your disc completely. Chews up 
lots of CPU time. Some implementations lose data when load average is high, 
etc. Bottom line: syslog is great at causing system administration 
headaches. Don't use it for busy servers. 



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