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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2022-06-06 22:35:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2022-06-06 22:43:31 +0200 |
| commit | 264ca9452fae827d6621b28b8972f4b1d68401a1 (patch) | |
| tree | c49f5eeb13d39024c7afc74b357c79ac9fa40689 /gnu/services | |
| parent | 635d49f97ee233bbb2673f97d7556c3c91b55889 (diff) | |
services: syslogd: Do not fsync at each line.
Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55707>.
Previously Inetutils' syslogd would call 'fsync' after each line written
to a file. This would significantly increase boot times on machines
with slow-ish spinning HDDs, where each 'fsync' call would take between
0.1s and 0.4s (and we'd do two of them for each line, one for
/var/log/messages and one for /var/log/debug).
* gnu/services/base.scm (%default-syslog.conf): Add a '-' before each
file name, except /var/log/secure. Change what goes to /var/log/debug.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/services')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/services/base.scm | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm index f27365bbe6..6865d03f25 100644 --- a/gnu/services/base.scm +++ b/gnu/services/base.scm @@ -1397,23 +1397,24 @@ responsible for logging system messages."))) # level notice or higher and anything of level err or # higher to the console. # Don't log private authentication messages! - *.alert;auth.notice;authpriv.none /dev/console + *.alert;auth.notice;authpriv.none -/dev/console # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. # Don't log private authentication messages! - *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none /var/log/messages + *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none -/var/log/messages - # Like /var/log/messages, but also including \"debug\"-level logs. - *.debug;mail.none;authpriv.none /var/log/debug + # Log \"debug\"-level entries and nothing else. + *.=debug -/var/log/debug # Same, in a different place. - *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none /dev/tty12 + *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none -/dev/tty12 # The authpriv file has restricted access. + # 'fsync' the file after each line (hence the lack of a leading dash). authpriv.* /var/log/secure # Log all the mail messages in one place. - mail.* /var/log/maillog + mail.* -/var/log/maillog ")) (define* (syslog-service #:optional (config (syslog-configuration))) |