is the value of "logName" is dynamically created? How many such
"logName" values will be created in your running apps?
How did you configure file appenders for these "logName"s?
It might be better to post a piece of your log4j configuration file so
that people can know how you configure loggers/appenders.
Jin
On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 08:36 AM, Bin Yan wrote:
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> Thanks for the reply. Currently, that's how we do it, very simply:
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> theLog = Category.getInstance(logName.toString());
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> if (..... ) {
> theLog.fatal(theMessage);
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> }
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> At 08:52 30.08.2002 -0400, you wrote:
>> I have a problem with file handler in UNIX. It is related to log4j, but
> may
>> not caused by it.
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>> There are two web applications running, both using log4j. One is
>> Solaris/Weblogic and the other
>> Solaris/iPlanet. The WL one never had problem with file logging. But
>> the
>> iPlanet always will have overflow file handler issue and eventually
>> after
>> days the UNIX file resources is used up and appl. get locked.
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>> I understand log4j is thread safe. I also checked the code of log4j. It
>> seems that the files (appenders) get opened and kept open until
>> specifically get reset() or close(). My question is that
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>> (a) Should we close the appenders each event is logged? Or we should
>> justleave them open.
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> No, that would be excruciatingly slow.
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>> (b) For the file hander of UNIX, for one file (appender) why would it
>> use
>> multiple handler for one file? why not use kind of pooling access to
>> the
>> file.
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> How do you configure the appenders? Do you dynamically create a large
> number of appenders without ever closing them?
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>> Please clarify if I have any misunderstandins.
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>> Tony Yan
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