On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Peter Steele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We use a RollingFileAppender defined as follows: > > > > <appender name="FILE" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender"> > > <param name="maxFileSize" value="200MB" /> > > <param name="maxBackupIndex" value="20" /> > > <param name="File" value="${LOGNAME}" /> > > <param name="Append" value="false"/> > > <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"> > > <param name="ConversionPattern" > > value="%d{MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %5p %c{1} - %m%n" /> > > </layout> > > </appender> > > > > It works fine, except that the maxBackupIndex appears to top out at 13, even > though we have 20 specified. Are we doing something wrong or is 13 a hard > coded maximum for this field?
12 is a hardcoded limit because this requires renames of all backup files which is expensive . -- Dale King