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My knowledge in software development couldn't answer the following question. Advice or comments are welcome. I'm writing a web application (yeah, in perl.) and I want to create a site log (in a mysql database) that keeps track of all the events that occurs on the site (not only errors, but users actions too).
My main concern now is performance. Loggin almost each single action could be pretty intensive for the database (I guess) and, also, I think it would slow up the application times (because each time the application logs something, the flow of the application needs to wait until the log is done to continue the normal flow).
Or, perhaps, there are no reasons to worry and all what I think is crap. Again, I'm a rookie and haven't faced this situation before.
I'll thank any advice or comment.

In reply to Performance question about loggin application events by porta

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