Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 18:20:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/28738: IPFW log messages causes syslogd to fsync. Message-ID: <200107060120.f661K4W74326@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/28738; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: pkern@utcs.utoronto.ca Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/28738: IPFW log messages causes syslogd to fsync. Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 18:13:14 -0700 pkern@utcs.utoronto.ca writes: > >Description: > > syslogd is set to fsync after each klog message. > This results in a lot of disk activity if IPFW is being used > with verbose logging enabled -- an fsync for each IPFW syslog > (and there could be more than one IPFW log message per packet). > But IPFW syslogs use the LOG_SECURITY facility so it's possible > to exempt those messages from being fsync'ed each time. But it may not be the only one using LOG_SECURITY. And if it is now, can you say that for N months in the future? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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