Can syslog Performance Be Improved?

Question

We have an application on Linux that used the syslog mechanism. After a week spent trying to figure out why this application was running slower than expected, we discovered tha

Answer 1

You may configure syslogd's level (or facility) to log asynchronously, by putting a minus before path to logfile (ie.: user.* [tab] -/var/log/user.log).

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