> My database is on the same drive as my swap, in my case. All of my logs > (bdb, syslog) are together on a separate drive. Other than the fact that > logging always slows things down on Solaris 8/9 (the "-" option in Linux > largely negates this for that platform), I've not seen this be too negative > an impact. My Linux systems have everything on a single mirrored disk at > the moment (and are screaming fast comparatively).
Agreed -- 5000 ops/sec all day with loglevel 256 and I never see iowait or syslogd sitting on the cpu. (bdb, swap, and bdb logs all on one mirrored pair.) John -- John Madden Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana [EMAIL PROTECTED]