Very cool, thanks very much :)
  

Curt Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
On May 22, 2006, at 4:00 AM, sol myr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're integrating log4j into a project.
> Performance is curucial, so we use Async File Appender.
> I understand that logging requests are placed into a queue, which 
> is consumed by a dedicated thread that performs the IO to file.
>
> My question:
> What happends, by default, if the queue fills up (i.e. logging 
> messages arrive too fast for the IO thread to handle) ?
> Can you tell log4j to silently dismiss messages, if queue is full ? 
> The system is "almost realtime", so we'd rather loose a log 
> message, than hinder performance.
>
> Thanks very much.

AsyncAppender was recently rewritten to address several deadlock 
problems. In the new code if If blocking=false, logging requests 
will be counted when the queue is full and a summary appended when 
the appender catches up (http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/ 
show_bug.cgi?id=38982). There has not been a release since that code 
was added to the SVN, so it is not available in a release at the 
moment. It has been added to the v1_2-branch, but there is currently 
no plan for another 1.2.x release. If you'd like to use the new 
AsyncAppender with a production log4j 1.2, I'd suggest copying the 
new AsyncAppender and changing the package name to one of your packages.

Prior to that rewrite, if the queue became full, any subsequent 
logging request that met the threshold would be blocked until the 
queue had an opening.

The code is fairly new, so any observations, bugs or feedback would 
be appreciated.

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