Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 24 Oct 1996 19:43:50 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: syslog spiral death |
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 ron@caldera.com wrote: > > [... syslog slows down lots with masive (>8Gb) logs ...] > > [...] > > I've seen a similar problem also. Running strace showed that syslogd > was doing fsync() quite often. As the log files grow, fsync() takes > longer and longer to complete. I don't know whether to consider this > an inefficiency in the fsync() implementation or poor behavior on the > part of syslogd for calling fsync() so often...
Hmm, would you call it a bad implamentation if it didn't fsync() often (ie that copy of the panic made it to syslog, even into the logs, but it wasn't written to disk ....) ?
> We avoid this problem > by keeping our log files trimmed (via chklogs). > > Ron >
You (Tony) could try putting the sync bit on the directory, or just the file ie: # chattr +S /var/log
> -- > Ron Holt <ron@caldera.com> Caldera, Inc. >
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