Matthew Garrett (mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:32:16AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > > Putting syslog on tmpfs by default and limiting the total size to something > > like 5MB would be something to evaluate for the default desktop. > > I looked into this, and we're not actually doing too badly - our syslogd > doesn't fsync() after every log entry. I'm broadly in favour of using > tmpfs, though. There's an argument that certain priorities probably want > to stay on disk, but otherwise we can simply sync the tmpfs to disk on > shutdown or reboot. Maybe I'm unusual, but I rarely reboot my laptop cleanly. I'm not sure I'd want X weeks of logs to go away. Are there any sorts of mechanisms to do per-directory or per-file writeback caching, so that /var/log/ could be set to 'sync only every 15 minutes', or similar? Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
