Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 28 Jan 1997 18:17:18 -0500 (EST) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: stable kernel, when? |
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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> > your firewall code which works as you say. The problem I've mentioned > > seem to be related to the packet logging feature (CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE) > > of the firewall. When I flood ping an address for which packets will > > be logged via syslog the machine crashes. And you won't call the > > packet logging via printk & syslog hyper optimized, don't you? > > Its quite fast (or would be) but syslog writes to the log synchronously. > Its one of those things 2.1.x has fixed 8)
Newer syslogd's let you disable the fsync call on a per logfile basis, so that writing lots of log info doesn't have to be a kick in the balls for your disk and i/o performance.
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