Also, it would make sense to me to have the delete mechanism you are 
implementing to also be able to use the scheduler. But if you do that I would 
expect we would have a new ScheduledItems section in the configuration. At that 
point users could create their own plugins and schedule them.

Ralph

> On Nov 16, 2015, at 10:46 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yes, @Scheduled is a way to let the scheduler know how many items will be 
> scheduled. Realistically they don’t each need their own thread since they 
> will likely happen at different times. I don’t want a single thread because 
> multiple items are likely to be scheduled at the same time - like midnight. 
> If you use a Timer task then the Timer task that runs really needs to spawn a 
> new thread to do the actual work. Otherwise it runs the risk of tying up the 
> scheduler for a long period of time. I figure that with a max of 5 threads 
> that shouldn’t be a problem.
> 
> Also, the WatchManager isn’t a plugin and registers itself with the 
> scheduler. It can be watching multiple files and each interval it will check 
> all the files. I am assuming that eventually the FileConfigurationMonitor 
> will be modified to use the WatchManager, and if we implement support for 
> multiple configuration files and with multiple script files the number of 
> things being monitored could cause the WatchManager to take a few seconds on 
> each interval. So if the WatchManager is active and there are any other 
> scheduled items I would want at least 2 threads. Note that we can tune the 
> algorithm for how many threads we actually create.
> 
> Ralph
> 
>> On Nov 16, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I only read the commit emails on my phone, so my understanding is still a 
>> bit superficial, but I noticed each @Scheduled element gets its own thread 
>> (up to max 5 threads, after that they start sharing). Why not use just one 
>> thread that executives all scheduled/submitted tasks?
>> 
>> Remko 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On 2015/11/17, at 12:25, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have checked in a CronTriggeringPolicy for the RollingFileAppenders on 
>>> branch LOG4J2-89.  It also introduces the ConfigurationScheduler, a more 
>>> generic version of the ScheduledExecutorService I previously added. I am 
>>> envisioning that the scheduler can be used for more time-based tasks. 
>>> Plugins that use the Scheduler should be annotated with the Scheduled 
>>> annotation to help calculate the number of threads the scheduler should 
>>> create.
>>> 
>>> Please take a look at the branch and let me know what you think.
>>> 
>>> Ralph
>>> 
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