Bug#462581: syslog uses blocking IO in main squid process

Hi Brian, global syslog logging is enabled with the '-s' command line argument passed by default to squid in /etc/init.d/squid. You can override the SQUID_ARGS settings in /etc/default/squid. I think this should address the issue you reported, but I'm still leaving this bug opened since lo

Bug#462581: syslog uses blocking IO in main squid process

Package: squid Version: 2.5.9-10sarge2 Squid does a blocking write to the syslog socket from the main proccess. If this write blocks, the proxy comes to a grinding halt until the syslog completes. Worse still, squid logs some information via syslog despite all of the *_log directives requesting lo