At 03:48 PM 8/13/2000, you wrote:
>Hi all. I have used apache for years and years (compiling my own), but I
>have recently started running the advanced extranet server that comes with
>the Mandrake 7.1 distro to see if I can distinguish performance
>benefits. One thing that seems rather strange is that the log file does
>not seem to be written to when the server is hit, it seems to be holding
>the logfile info and writing it about once a day (this is a super low
>volume testbed server, so I have not yet figured out the trigger
>threshold). I am also getting reports from web trends that the logfile is
>out of time/date order, and am wondering if it is sorting the logfiles by
>IP address before writing.
>
>Is this a feature of AES, and can I turn it off in the conf file
>somewhere? Apologies if I am missing something obvious.
Looking at http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/perf-tuning.html I found what
appears to be a compile time tag called BUFFERED_LOGS. My intuition tells
me that the Mandrake AES RPM was compiled with this feature. If so, is
there a way of turning it off short of recompiling?
--chris
