Why is syslog so much slower than file IO?
- by ceving
I wrote a simple test program to measure the performance of the syslog function. This are the results of my test system: (Debian 6.0.2 with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64)
Test Case Calls Payload Duration Thoughput
[] [MB] [s] [MB/s]
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