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Matthias Meyser wrote:
> 
> > I wonder how much of a perormance impact forking logger would
> > have vs. using syslog(), especially on high traffic servers.
> >
> As I understand the the "piped to" programm is only forked at startup
> and then all further logentries are piped to it.

Unless the child doesn't read it's pipe often enough in which
case Apache will restart it (without restarting the server).
This is detailed in Apache 1.3 release notes.

Cheers
Stuart


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