Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:06 PM
To: Log4CXX User
Subject: Re: Maximum backup index for RollingFileAppender
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
