> I know it can have an adverse effect on a mail server, is syslog going
> to give us any performance hits?
Yes. On some platforms (HP-UX at least) applications can stall ~2s
retrying if syslogd is not reading the messages written to its pipe.
syslogd also has a reputation for using too much CPU under load, but
this is annecdotal only -- I've not seen such a situation myself.
Regards,
Giles