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Subject: Re: Do Log files hurt engine performance?

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 09:30:19 07/26/04

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On July 26, 2004 at 07:22:31, Norm Pollock wrote:

>I wondering if it pays to turn off log files in order to enhance performance?
>Has anyone ever looked into this?
>
>Turning off log files for cm9k and cm10k, which I use in the fritz8 gui,
>indicates that this might be the case. But my data is too small to draw any
>conclusion.

One caveat, though.  Make sure you don't call fflush or setbuf(NULL) on the file
descriptors -- i.e. let the CRT buffer your writes.

Scott



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