Re: [PERFORM] syslog slowing the database? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Stephen Robert Norris
Subject Re: [PERFORM] syslog slowing the database?
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Msg-id 1078882327.9858.24.camel@chinstrap
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In response to Re: [PERFORM] syslog slowing the database?  ("Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>)
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On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 12:09, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
> Might want to look at metalog, it does delayed writes, though ultimately
> your issue is io bound and there's not much you can do to reduce io if
> you want to keep syslog logging your pgsql queries and such.

Yeah, but syslog with fsync() after each line is much, much worse than
syslog without it, assuming anything else is on the same disk (array).
It just guarantees to screw up your drive head movements...

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Stephen Norris      srn@fn.com.au
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