title: Can syslog Performance Be Improved?
body: <p>We have an application on Linux that used the <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/3/syslog" rel="noreferrer">syslog</a> mechanism.  After a week spent trying to figure out why this application was running slower than expected, we discovered that if we eliminated syslog, and just wrote directly to a log file, performance improved dramatically.</p>
  
  <p>I understand why syslog is slower than direct file writes.  But I was wondering:  Are there ways to configure syslog to optimize its performance?</p>