[logs] naming multiple output files with syslog-ng

[Mordechai T. Abzug]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:25:37AM -0500, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:

> Administrators consistently blow logging off because "it'll slow
> things down." To which the correct response is always, "Really? When
> you measured it, how significant was the impact?"

We used to have some Cisco 7500 routers which did a fair amount of
logging of packet-level events (i.e. denies.)  Over the years in this
configuration, CPU utilization gradually increased.  At one point, CPU
hit 100%, and we started having high packet loss.  One of the network
guys tried turning off logging.  CPU immediately dropped to about 3%,
and performance steadied.  We did some checking to see if there was a
looping problem (i.e. logging all logged packets) and there wasn't.
Logging was just a more CPU-intensive activity on that architecture,
and the gradual increase in denied traffic had finally overwhelmed it.

Yes, this is now-old Cisco hardware, running a now-old version of IOS.
At the time, though, the hardware was relatively modern.

[Not bothering to CC: the OP, since this has nothing to do with the
OP.]

- Morty