Robin, this is a JMH benchmark. I _think_ it simply counts the number of times 
the test code (logger.log(...)) was invoked for all threads together. Need to 
double check. 

In which case this would be a good illustration of Amdahl's law. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
(Conclusion: Write single-threaded apps or use the lock free async Loggers. )


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> On 2016/04/13, at 5:32, Robin Coe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Is that total msg/s across all threads or per thread?  I expect it's per 
> thread but wanted to be sure, as the single threaded performance would make 
> it seem that you shouldn't run multithreaded.
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> Something you could add to the performance page on the site perhaps?
>> 
>> If I am not mistaken Logback still has code that doesn’t use 
>> UnsynchronizedAppenderBase so it would have more locking contention. But I 
>> don’t know if this test is one of them.  I would agree that a ThreadLocal 
>> byte buffer might make a difference.
>> 
>> Ralph
>> 
>> > On Apr 12, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I wanted to share the results of some initial performance tests.
>> >
>> > This is from the log4j-perf FileAppenderBenchmark, starting with 1 thread, 
>> > ending at 64 threads. It compares Logback to Log4j 1.2 to Log4j 2.
>> >
>> > Point of interest for me is "direct enc": use the garbage-free 
>> > Layout.encode(LogEvent, ByteBufferDestination), vs. "allocate": create 
>> > byte[] and Strings by calling Layout.toByteArray().
>> >
>> > <FileAppenderLinux2.6.png>
>> > ​
>> > Looks like at the moment garbage-free is better with a single thread and 
>> > allocating is better with more threads.
>> >
>> > This is because the current implementation locks on the 
>> > OutputStreamManager while writing into the shared buffer.
>> >
>> > I'm very happy with this initial result.
>> > We can probably improve on this with a threadlocal byte buffer so we only 
>> > need to lock when copying that threadlocal buffer into the shared buffer.
>> >
>> > What is also interesting is how much better Log4j 2 is compared to Logback 
>> > and Log4j, especially with more than one thread.
>> >
>> > Command to run the tests:
>> > java -Dlog4j2.enable.direct.encoders=true -jar 
>> > benchmarks-LOG4J2-1343-20160411.jar ".*FileAppender.*" -f 1 -wi 10 -i 20 
>> > -bm thrpt -tu s -t 1
>> >
>> > (increase threads with -t 2, -t 4 etc, use 
>> > log4j2.enable.direct.encoders=false to use Layout.toByteArray())
>> >
>> 
>> 
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