[lug] Performance Issues with syslog Shell Interface?

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

My question was actually more basic--is it more expensive to redirect to
syslog than a file (I'm told it is).

There is a fair amount of logging by Tomcat and 3rd-party libraries that
I have yet to figure out how to stop.  But after some minimal testing
(we're having trouble convincing the PTB of the need for a proper test
environment :-(, I'm going to try it out.

Thanks for your responses,
Dhruva

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 at 16:05 -0700, Nate Duehr soliloquized thusly:
> On Monday 02 February 2004 12:59 pm, George Sexton wrote:
> > Unless you have a large amount of debugging code present it should not
> > be much of a hit. After startup, only exceptions are logged to this
> > file.
> 
> Agreed with George... we "catch" the developers releasing (or worse, 
> debugging on the production boxes) with lots of Java code that dumps 
> DEBUG messages and tomcat dutifully passes these along to the log file...
> 
> Turn off the debug's in the Java code, things get a whole lot quieter... 
> and faster if the box is at all I/O-bound.  Tomcat and Java are big 
> enough fat pigs on their own without having them writing megs (GIGS?) of 
> logs every hour.  ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com
>