Re: Re: printk performance logging without syslogd for router

["william fitzgerald" <william.fitzgerald3@beer.com>]

---- Begin Original Message ----
 From: Peter Wächtler <pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de>
Sent: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:15:45 +0100
To: william fitzgerald
<william.fitzgerald3@beer.com>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: printk performance logging without
syslogd for router


william fitzgerald wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> 
> (perforamnce logging of network stack through a
> linux router)
> 
> the main question:
> 
> is there a way i can buffer or record  the
printk
> statements and print them to disk  after my
> packets have gone through the router?
> 

there is an option in syslogd to prevent
immediatly
writing to the logfile:

prefix the log with a dash:

kern.*	-/var/log/kernelmessages

---- End Original Message ----

what does klogd do?

i thought klogd writes to disk if you turn off
syslogd.that way you only have one over head.




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