Bruce Perens writes: > Note that Stephen is the author of the Procmail and SmartList programs > (which operate our list server). Turning off the fsync is indeed a big > win on a machine that operates mailing list. There may be 4 syslog() calls > for each subscriber every time a message goes to a mailing list. This > ends up being continuous disk rattling. > > This switch solves the immediate problem, but making a way to tune this > in syslog.conf would be even nicer.
Right. The best thing I think would be a way to specify that a particular class of entry should not cause an fsync; the next best thing would be a way to specify that a particular file should never be syncd. Ian.
