I notice that Squid (2.5.STABLE7 and STABLE9) on Solaris 8 (Sparc64 E280R) tends to bog down with iowait, most likely due to logging overhead. If I disable cache_access_log, responsiveness is good and the system shows mostly idle, but of course I don't have any access logs. Using other proxy software (Apache mod_proxy, etc) on the same exact machine I had similar performance issues, but was able to work around the problem by configuring the proxy to use syslog, and writing the syslog over a network connection instead of writing to the local disk (I can live with the risk of losing some log data due to the limitations of network syslog). Additionally, I have a large farm of cache servers and would like to centralize all logging on an existing high-throughput syslog collecting host. Has anybody put together a good patch for Squid (2.5.X) to record access information via syslog instead of writing to disk? It looks like I could simply modify logfilePrintf() in logfile.c? Thanks, Kevin Kadow (P.S. Yes, I fully understand the various issues with and drawbacks of using "syslog" for access logs, particularly across a network.)
