Re: fsync on large files
Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:42:17 +0100
> > lots of things trying to talk to syslogd. But syslogd can't accept their
> > connections because it is contantly fsync'ing, so the other daemons block
> > trying to connect.
>
> The real fix for this problem would be to use a syslogd which uses datagram
> sockets instead. (Both libc5 and glibc understand them.)
Which means, when syslogd is really overloaded, silently throwing away
half of the messages. Hmph.
Olaf
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