From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jul 5 18:20:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E45D37B406 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 18:20:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f661K4W74326; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 18:20:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 18:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200107060120.f661K4W74326@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Dima Dorfman Subject: Re: bin/28738: IPFW log messages causes syslogd to fsync. Reply-To: Dima Dorfman Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/28738; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dima Dorfman 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