[Logcheck-devel] Bug#445215: Still slow

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Johan Walles <johan.walles at gmail.com> [2009.12.21.1522 +0700]:
> Even with the egrep memory clearing issue fixed (it was long time
> ago), grep still uses up ungodly amounts of CPU time while logcheck is
> running.  If the above perl hack is the way to go, please implement
> it!
> 
> Or maybe logcheck is becoming big enough that it shouldn't be in
> shellscript any more?

It should have never been a shell script. If you are interested in
a rewrite, have a look at http://wiki.logcheck.org/logfilter and
don't hesitate to speak to me for input, should you want it.

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