Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 16:55:01 07/26/04
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On July 26, 2004 at 12:30:19, Scott Gasch wrote: >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 Is that always a good idea? If you are logging a fatal error (i.e. the program is about to crash), I think you better log it and flush the buffer immediately. It wouldn't be much help if the program keeps crashing but there is nothing in your error log.
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