On Thu, 09 Nov 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote: [....] > Nope, these only actually write to disk when there's dirty buffers or > metadata. [....] I found it a big help to ad "-" in front of the logfilenames in /etc/syslog.conf. Without it, each logfile is automatically flushed to disk on every write. Made a big difference for me. Cheers, -Oly