On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Fernando Maior wrote: > 1) renames files acording to some standard
Yes. > 2) stops listening to the incoming traffic No. > 3) closes the old file Yes. > 4) creates the new log file Yes. And also restarts any helper processes. > 5) starts listening to the incoming traffic No. > And how many time is spent in that process? Very little. > The size of the log file or memory cache > does mean a difference in time spent on > log rotating? No. But as it also writes out a clean swap.state the larger your disk cache is the longer it may take before performance is normal (well.. a few seconds longer) Regards Henrik
