Hi Tomek, Thank you for your bug report! We will take a look. I've created this Jira ticket to track the issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-246
Best regards, Remko Sent from my iPhone On 2013/05/09, at 18:34, Tomek Kaczynski <tomek.kaczyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > > I'm using log4j2 since beta4, now beta5. In general it's a cute library, > but there's some bug that I've found out recently : > > > When a client code genreates a huge message ( 64k ), the underlying > DatagramOutputStream fails ( UDP socket throws exception). > > After that all following flushes fail because data buffer is not cleared > upon exception. > > So in lines > > DatagramOutputStream:91 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > public synchronized void flush() throws IOException { > if (this.data != null && this.ds != null && this.address != null) { > final DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(data, > data.length, address, port); > ds.send(packet); > } > data = null; > } > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > data = null should be put in finally block or some simillar solution could be > applied. > > > What do you think ? > > > Regards, > Tomek > > > Moreover DatagramOutputStream should check if message size is less then 64k . >