> > > Actually, I think the title is a bit of a misnoma as it's > disk space I'm > looking to cap the usage of. > > I was wondering if anything in 1.3 would enable me to ensure > I won't run > out of hard drive. I know it's cheap and all that but, > depending on the > performance cost, I'd like to be able to guarantee that I > won't run out > of space if I have a sudden rush on system usage. > > What I envision is a class that would be passed the 'rolled' files and > would keep track of them. When the total file sizes exceed a given > trigger value it would delete the oldest files, until the > size was at an > acceptable amount. > > Does anyone else think this would be a nice feature? >
I personally think this would be an awesome feature. It would work well within the Plugin architecture, and be able to told to 'manage' a particular Appender. Feel free to flesh out any ideas you have on the log4j-dev list if you like. cheers, Paul Smith --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
