Loggers are not GC-ed until the whole logging subsystem is GC-ed. That is until 
your webapp is unloaded or standalone process is stopped. 
Is your app a webapp?

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> On 2015/04/20, at 1:27, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The LoggerContext.loggers is a ConcurrentHashMap<String, Loggers>. It
> sounds like you need the effect of a ConcurrentHashMap with weak values...
> 
> Gary
> 
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Veselin M <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I have a memory leak problem with Log4j2. I’m using SLF4J to get loggers
>> for my objects. Unfortunately when they get garbage collected the logger
>> remains cached in LoggerContext.loggers in the log4j framework. Is there
>> any way to prevent the caching or to remove the logger?
>> 
>> Regards
>> Veselin
>> 
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