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
Received on Fri Oct 24 2003 - 12:58:38 MDT
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