Re: external logger?

On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 04:45:22PM +0100, Hans Akerman wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Peter van Dijk wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to have squid use an external logger?
> >
> > Greetz, Peter.
>
> Modify source to use syslog and use a remote LOGHOST. It will be a bit of
> overhead though.. :-)

syslog is just about the _last_ thing I want to use... syslog has terrible
overhead. For example, on one machine I have access to, after sending out
a mailinglist to several 1000's of subscribers, syslog keeps eating 100% CPU
for another 10 minutes after sendmail is done...

Greetz, Peter.

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