RE: naming multiple output files with syslog-ng

"Paul Melson" <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:22:59 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.loganalysis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> WTF is someone doing even TALKING about performance if they are running
Apache?
>
> That's like asking "is this stuff fattening?" around a mouthful of pulled
pork, Ben&Jerry's, 
> and butter.

Fair enough, maybe, but I think Jan's point is still valid.  If you look at
the big-number rainmakers according to specweb[1], they all use binary
logging and really big log buffers[2].  Text file logging, let along syslog,
is pretty expensive even relative to Apache.

PaulM

[1] http://www.spec.org/web2005/results/web2005.html
[2]
http://www.spec.org/web2005/results/res2007q4/web2005-20071203-00101.html#Co
nfiguration%20Section