On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:01:56PM +0000, Simon Waters wrote:
> On Friday 20 November 2009 15:52:13 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> >
> > If it's a collection of different logfiles adding up to 4KB in size per
> > email, then you might want to recheck your syslog-configuration.
>
> Probably pays to know what file system and mount options are applicable here
> as well.
>
> As I find it all too believable one could make a filesystem eat a block per
> distinct write these days.
If the OP is measuring I/O rates, not disk storage, then the simplest
explanation is failure to turn off synchronous syslog writes.
FAQ (Linux syslog.conf for mail):
mail.info -/var/log/maillog
the "-" is not optional on systems that handle non-trivial
volumes of email.
--
Viktor.
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