Can writing to logfiles seriously slow down your application?

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Published on 2010-04-22T08:59:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 9:03 UTC
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I'm using Log4Net to write logs to files. Can this serioulsy slow down my application? I know it depends on how much I'm writing away, but let's say that some hundreds of logs can be written per second.

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