Superpages on amd64 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Fri Nov 27 05:42:19 UTC 2009


On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, krad wrote:
> Im sure you will get a lot of lovely answers to this but best keep
> things simple. WHy not just syslog it of to another server and
> offload all the compression to that box. You could even back it with
> zfs nad do on the fly gzip compression at the file system level, or
> use syslog-ng to do it. If you are worried about zfs and bsd use
> (open)*solaris  or another filesystem with with inline compression

Or send squids logs to a small buffer process which you then HUP when 
rotating logs.

Also, I don't really understand why squid would fork when you tell it to 
rotate, seems like a design defect.

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