Re: syslog and network management

[david () lang hm]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Brian Loe wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:19 PM,  <david () lang hm> wrote:
>
> >  if you end up doing much searching through your logs you can end up eating
> >  a LOT more CPU then you imagine, especially as you correlate things and
> >  end up searching for more related items at a time.
>
> I've found that if you utilize, for instance, syslog-ng, you can split
> up the log files based on whatever (device type, network, etc.).
> Searching those smaller files is a lot less CPU intensive.

true, but I found that syslog-ng was far less effective at the more 
important job of receiving syslog messages from the wire and writing them 
to disk

David Lang
_______________________________________________
firewall-wizards mailing list
firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com
https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards