decent syslog replacement?

[Nicholas Henke]

Hello, I am in the process of writing a Metakit database wrapper. I am 
running into performance problems when I try to log a ton of debug 
messages. The system with thrash the disk when logging. I have tried using 
syslog, replacing stdout with a file, etc. None of these seem to help much. 
The only luck I have had is to just use print and have bash redirect to a 
file. This causes problems in other servers that are trying to log to the 
same file.

Is there any good solution to this?
I don't monitor the list that closely, so please CC: me

Thanks,
Nic