We're doing something very similar with quite a large number of background jobs but we are not seeing this behavior. We haven't really done anything special to configure the default (simplistic) Rails logger.
On 10/8/07, Jens Kraemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just tried out the PeriodicalTaskServlet with a simple task running > every 60 seconds. All it does is logging the current time via > RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER each time it is run. > > The task is correctly executed every 60 seconds but only every other log > statement from the task appears in the Rails log file. I know it's > correctly executed every minute since logging with $servlet_context.log > results in a log statement every minute as expected. > > This happened on Linux with JDK1.5/Tomcat 5.5. > > My theory now is that the job is executed by a different JRuby runtime > each time it runs (I have a maximum of 2 runtimes configured), and > Rails' simple logging mechanism can't handle that, resulting in lost log > statements. > > So my question now is - how do you handle logging in your JRuby/Rails > applications? > > Imho a more global logging facility would be needed to correctly log > input from multiple runtimes, just like the servlet_context logger. > Something mimicking the behaviour of Rails' Logger class would be needed > to make it a drop-in replacement. Shouldn't be too hard to do I guess, > but I'd rather ask here before re-inventing the wheel ;-) > > Btw, is there any way to get the servlet initialized by the container > other than having to hit the path where it's mounted with the browser? I > had to do so - only after that the servlet's init method was called and > it started executing the job. > > > many thanks, > Jens > > > -- > Jens Krämer > http://www.jkraemer.net/ - Blog > http://www.omdb.org/ - The new free film database > _______________________________________________ > Jruby-extras-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/jruby-extras-devel > _______________________________________________ Jruby-extras-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/jruby-extras-devel
