[Eventmachine-talk] EM based clustering proxy for web apps

Michael S. Fischer
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:48:43 -0000

On 2/27/07, Kirk Haines <wyhaines at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Oh, by the way, as a companion to the clustering proxy I''m also
> putting together a simple asynchronous logging service using EM.
> Setting it up to so that logging messages can be dumped to it very
> quickly, and it''ll take care of getting the messages written to
their
> log file(s), clustering writes as necessary if messages are coming in
> quickly.
>
> The intention is that this should allow a collection of cluster
> processes all running the same thing to have their messages written to
> a single log, without incurring any IO locking bottlenecks from having
> multiple processes all trying to send data to the same file.

What are the advantages over syslogd(8)?

--Michael