From: Lou Vanek <vanek@...>
Date: 2005-12-24T01:38:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails syslogger extremly slow..

a hard disk is roughly 100x slower than IO over a wire because it
has mechanically moving parts. So seeing a 10x slowdown is reasonable.

putting the following line in your rails environment.rb file should speed
things up since it will minimize logging output to the hard disk:

   config.log_level = :fatal



kenlet.usenet@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm using sysloglogger from here...
> 
> http://rails-analyzer.rubyforge.org/hacks/classes/SyslogLogger.html
> 
> but it causes my website to run 10x slower. It looks like there's heavy
> IO wait. Does anyone know why this may be?
> 
> Is it just because of the large amount of stuff it has to write to
> disk? I don't have a lot of memory...is that the main problem?