Re: [squid-users] logging options and performance effects

On Monday 25 August 2003 15.10, Adam Aube wrote:

> As for performance, it could cause a problem, but that will vary
> depending on setup. All you can do is monitor and see if a disk
> bottleneck occurs.

It also risks running into the magic 2GB file size limit rather
quickly unless you rotate your logs frequently.

> > Just curious as to what is the most efficient way to get log
> > files suitable for a log analyser
>
> Most log analyzers look only at the access.log anyway. Most of the
> time you will only need access.log and cache.log.

If your log analyzer need more information than logged in the two log
formats normally available in Squid then see
http://devel.squid-cache.org/customlog/. From there you can find a
patch which adds support for custom log formats to Squid-2.5. The
same functionality is also available as part of Squid-3.0 (no
patching required), but Squid-3.0 is not yet production quality.

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