Whilst you are waiting for people to decide on this - can I suggest that you go ahead an create a new Appender that works to your specifications. You call this something new - eg. TailDropAsyncAppender.
I am not sure if dropping log-lines is what people would like, but while they are deciding, you can always use your version of the code. Feel free to contribute it - there are many user contributions under /contribs. Cheers, Scott Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > I have posted this same issue when I first joined the mailing list, but > never saw it show up, so... > > The AsyncAppender is a great feature for slow logging devices, such as > file and sockets, but if you have too much load the async FIFO buffer > will wait (or so it seems) for the secondary appender to complete (i.e. > remove entries). And then the system will come to a grinding halt anyway. > > My suggestion is to introduce a small feature in the AsyncAppender. It > works like this; > > If the FIFO buffer is full, the AsyncAppender first try to remove all > statements of a certain level (and higher/lower?) in the FIFO, place a > marker in the FIFO that it has occurred, and add the new entry. If no > entries were removed, no marker is inserted and current behaviour prevails. > "none" should be the default level for removal and the current behaviour. > > > I have seen other requests for having the "Location" information > available for AsyncBuffers, but I think this is less desirable. The > rationale is that in a development environment, you don't use the > AsyncAppender, and in the production evironment, the Location generation > takes too long to generate anyway, and the primary feature of the > AsyncAppender (low latency) is lost. > > I know I have no votes, but -1 on that anyway... > > > Niclas Hedhman > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- Scott Farquhar :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Atlassian :: http://www.atlassian.com Supporting YOUR J2EE World -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
