LogFileReceiver and archived logs

[Thomas Svensen]

I am using the LogFileReceiver with Chainsaw and it’s working really well. With the latest Chainsaw build, I see that it’s tailing even when I filter for a term, which is a really useful improvement in my opinon! Great work!   Now for some feature requests (or undocumented features?):   Can the LogFileReceiver handle multiple input files? Our application archives log files on a regular basis by gzipping them. It would be very useful to input a file spec with wildcards and have the LogFileReceiver “automagically” open all files matching the and “gunzipping” the ones that have extension .gz. I assume this would be useful to many other users, too?   Also, Chainsaw has a heavy footprint memory and CPU-wise. Is this unavoidable with Swing-clients, or could it be tuned? On my WinXP with 2GB memory, Alt-Tab’ing to Chainsaw requires a 3-5 second wait before the GUI is redrawn...   ______________________ Thomas Svensen  Senior Solutions Engineer Fast Search & Transfer Chr. Fredriks plass 6, Oslo Mobile +47 48 01 12 63 www.fastsearch.com