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WatchDog on May 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nginx 1.7.1 adds syslog support

I think one reason people wanted it was to reduce/eliminate disk IO.

frankzinger on May 28, 2014 [–]

Yeah, and then you can also optimise the logging server's secondary storage setup for mostly appending writes. Or so I hear.

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