syslog traffic ...

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Havoc,

	Reading through chunks of truss output, it's quite annoying that gconfd
does quite so much syslogging ;-) I get great reams of:

26827/1:	 1.4229	time()
26827/1:	 1.4234	putmsg(4, 0xFFBEDFC0, 0xFFBEDFB4, 0)
26827/1:	 1.4239	open("/var/run/syslog_door", O_RDONLY)
26827/1:	 1.4243	door_info(8, 0xFFBEDEF8)
26827/1:	 1.4246	getpid()
26827/1:	 1.4249	door_call(8, 0xFFBEDEE0)
26827/1:	 1.4252	close(8)

	Which is the syscall cost per syslog call. It seems that a good number
of these are churned out per request - and presumably this will have
some performance impact on Linux as well.

	Is it possible to turn off the majority of the logging by default with
some environment variable ? / could that be done ?

	Thanks,

		Michael.

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