On Sunday 14 March 2004 1:00 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
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> So it seems fairly likely that the fsync-by-default business is
> indeed a Linux-ism not shared by other Unixen.
Excerpt from the Postfix 2.0.8 README_FILES/LINUX_README file in case
it proves interesting:
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LINUX syslogd uses synchronous writes by default. Because of this,
syslogd can actually use more system resources than Postfix. To
avoid such madness, disable synchronous mail logfile writes by
editing /etc/syslog.conf and by prepending a - to the logfile name:
mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
Send a "kill -HUP" to the syslogd to make the change effective.
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Cheers,
Steve
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