At 14:58 10.07.2002 -0700, Mark Womack wrote:
> > These parameters must fixed and their influence studied carefully. I
> > would test the results with message lengths of 10, 100 and 1000
> > characters. The real problem is the identification of the bottleneck.
> > Is it the CPU or the network bandwidth?
>
>I think some kind of performance measuring code would be helpful here.  I
>think will put together something for my contribution directory.  Then we
>could gather data from folks, capturing some idea about their setup.

+1

>I guess the point I am trying to make is that if there is anything we can do
>in the log4j code to increase this throughput, we should look into doing it.
>Using externalizable is one way, though it carries an incompatibility risk.

Using the java.io.Externalizable interface is certain to increase
performance but at the cost of backward compatibility.

>Maybe creating different kinds of remote appenders (like UDP) is another
>way.  But, we need to capture some kind of base line data to understand if
>the changes are effective.  I got led in this direction while trying to
>determine if my Receiver design was adding any significant overhead to the
>socket transmission.  That's all.

I understand.

>-Mark

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