Performance question
Lindsay Snider
lindsay at pa.net
Wed Oct 8 20:03:05 IST 2003
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 14:33, Alan Fiebig wrote:
> >Does it speed up if you turn syslog off?
>
> I stopped sendmail so no new messages would be added to mqueue.in,
> then counted how many were in the queue, waited, then counted again.
>
> So, the results are:
>
> 1,300/10 min virus:on spam:on syslog:on
> 2,200/10 min virus:on spam:on syslog:off
I'd suggest that you are i/o bound if turning syslog off helped performance
almost by a factor of 2.
>
> -Alan
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