[BusyBox] 5 copies of syslogd

[Bradley D. LaRonde]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Andersen" <andersen at lineo.com>
To: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad at ltc.com>
Cc: <busybox at busybox.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: [BusyBox] 5 copies of syslogd


> On Tue Jun 27, 2000 at 12:19:16AM -0400, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:
> > now, I expect to see two - one for klogd and one for syslogd.
> >
> > But my syslogd parents two more syslogds, and one of those parents yet
> > another syslogd.
> >
> > Is this normal?  Any ideas?
>
> Yes, this is normal. Basically, busybox syslogd used fork to spawn off
child
> listener processes for new connections.  This accomplished the same thing
as
> the traditional non-blocking IO approach, but makes the code smaller.
>
> Basically, what you see is syslogd working as expected.

Is there significant overhead from the multiple processes?  I'm using
BusyBox on a system with only 8MB RAM and no swap device at all.

Regards,
Brad