Logging to one process from thousands: How does it work?

[chandru]

Hi Sean,

On 06/01/06, Sean Hinde <sean.hinde@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi Chandru,
>
> On 5 Jan 2006, at 19:19, Sean Hinde wrote:
>
> >
> > You could introduce an additional accumulator process which stores
> > log messages while waiting  for a separate disk log owning process
> > to write the current chunk. The protocol to the disk log owning
> > process could be "send async log message, but don't send any more
> > until the disk log process confirms that the write is done with a
> > message back".
>
> OK. How about something like what follows at the end of this mail. I
> have made it spawn a new process to do the logging rather than have
> an additional permanent process and sending a message, but only
> because it is simpler for a proof of concept.
>
> The idea is to start this as well as open the disk logs, but route
> log writes via this.

Thanks for this. I'll try to integrate it into our logger app and see
how it behaves.

cheers
Chandru