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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Subject: Re: newbie thread/process model question in hybrid server
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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 23:55:19 +0100
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Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Tani Hosokawa wrote:
>
>> It would also let you consolidate all your log writing into one burst to
>> make your disk activity more efficient... Like with IIS, where you can set
>> it to only log when its got 'x' bytes to write to disk.  I do that right
>> now using a piped log, but it might be more efficient if it was done in
>> the server.
>
>-DBUFFERED_LOGS

That reduces the number of syscalls performed by Apache but has the
disadvantage of requiring a post-processor to sort them. I don't think
there is a way of getting around that problem.

Tony.
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