Bug 73306
| Summary: | sysklogd ships with inefficient default settings for Postfix | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Petri T. Koistinen <thoron> |
| Component: | sysklogd | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | alan, chris.ricker, rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | EasyFix |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 1.4.1rh-21 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-06-28 19:51:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This is performance issue, I guess. Is this still a issue? It can't be so hard to fix this that it takes 2 years to fix. It's only matter of adding one minus sign to /etc/syslog.conf file. My /etc/syslog.conf has these lines: # Log all the mail messages in one place. mail.* -/var/log/maillog and it have been working well for years. For starters, this should be filed against syslog, not postfix.... agreed, this is not a postfix issue but rather a sysklogd issue, reassigneing to notting Seems a sensible fix Fixed in 1.4.1rh-21. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-12.5 i686; Nav) Description of problem: # tail -11 /etc/postfix/README_FILES/LINUX_README LINUX SYSLOGD PERFORMANCE ========================= 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. # cat /etc/syslog.conf | grep maillog mail.* /var/log/maillog # rpm -qf /etc/syslog.conf sysklogd-1.4.1-8 # rpm -q postfix postfix-1.1.7-2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Read interesting files randomly. ;-) Additional info: