Re: New logging system ideas

--On Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:35 AM +0000 Howard Chu <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>> Not only does stdout allow you to use native tools such as `journalctl`
>> or `kubectl` out of the box, log aggregation is a completely solved
>> problem in this workflow and is trivial to implement.
>>
>>
>> That being said, persisting logs to disk in a binary format has its
>> merits.   Personally, I don't think plain text logs scale all that well.
>
> Plaintext logs scale horribly. When you have servers processing hundreds
> of thousands to millions of queries/sec, you have to rotate log files
> pretty frequently otherwise your disks get filled.

The issue I found, at least with journald, is it deadlocks when subjected 
to millions of queries/sec environments.

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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