One line of trace

We're doing about 2,000 tiny (price-tick) transactions on our pair of quad-core boxes now. The CPU is still only at 60% utilisation, so there's still a bottle neck or two.

Say we eventually get up to 3,000 transactions at peak, then each transaction will be using around 300 microseconds of CPU.

Now it turns out that we have left one line of console trace output saying "I have written transaction X" which takes roughly 60 microseconds on a single core, or about 15 microseconds of aggregate horse-power on our quad-core box.

So the point is: one line of console trace will use about 5% of available CPU when we reach our target ... is it really worth it? I sense another configuration option crawling out of the woodwork ...