From owner-freebsd-isp Tue May 18 9:52:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.206.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E998714F98 for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 09:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from backup.zippynet.iol.net.au (backup.zippynet.iol.net.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA24170; Wed, 19 May 1999 02:52:01 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 02:52:00 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.zippynet.iol.net.au To: Matthias Meyser Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apache log files In-Reply-To: <19990518175649.A9258@xenetserver.harz.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 18 May 1999, Matthias Meyser wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 11:45:57AM -0400, Ayan George 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. Yes, that is what happens. I am running about 60 virtual web servers here, each piping their separate logs through the 'rotatelogs' program supplied with apache, logging to the users' home directory. You will have to keep an eye on available FD's though, as each pipe also requires a shell. > > CU > matthias -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speed Internet Services http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message