I'm dealing with Tech Support right now about corrupt log entries in my
sysmmdd.txt files. (Causes both analyzers to crash.) So -- would
Steve's idea about the Log Server handling things better also include
less likelihood of corrupt entries? I don't particularly care which
logging method I use as long as it does the job.
Thanks,
John
Daniel Donnelly wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> To be perfectly honest, I have rarely used the SysLog myself, so cannot say
> exactly how it handles the disk writing. Since I have set it up on my
> computer now, I'll do some looking and get back to you. However, this
> computer only processes my personal email (or other test stuff I do), so the
> load is normally very low.
>
> I can say that I did look at the date/time of the log file yesterday and it
> did update quickly, after I sent a message (as I expected and similiar to
> using other methods). That would tell me that any 'chunking' is done fairly
> quickly and may be limited in size or time.
>
> Maybe one of the other Ipswitch people will provide us with more details now
> that I have admitted my limited knowledge of the subject.
>
> I would have to agree with you Steve, about the effects, at least in
> general.
>
> Daniel Donnelly
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> > >Why would I use the Syslog Server over the other types of logs?
> >
> > Because then the log server is handling the problem of when to write info
> to
> > disk and what to write, this leaves the other processes to concentrate on
> > what they do best.
> >
> > I think that the log server writes to the disks in chunks (is this true
> > Dan??) rather than line by line. This makes it a much more efficient way
> of
> > logging.
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >
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