Is there any chance you can update your app to Log4j 2.5 using our 1.2
bridge?

Gary

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Veit Guna <veit.g...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> We're developing a Jersey 2(.22.1) REST service with JDK8, log4j 1.2.16
> and SLF4J 1.7.7 using Tomcat 8.0.23.
>
> Recently I stumbled across the problem mentioned here:
>
> https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50486
>
> Where Tomcat complains about left behind ThreadLocalMaps.
>
> I updated to 1.2.17 which claims to fix the mentioned problem.
> On first sight, it did. Starting the server and immediately stopping it
> showed no warning anymore - before it did. Yay!
>
> But then I drove some loadtests against our REST service and after
> stopping it the same message appeared again :(.
>
> I double checked that our MDC put/remove is performed within a
> try/finally within a http filter. I also logged, what values
> were put and removed from the MDC - everyting as expected.
> I also made sure, that the key was really removed after
> MDC.remove() by getting the key from the MDC again: null.
>
> Tomcat complained about a specific key/value in the ThreadLocalMap.
> I checked, that this key/value was logged before - and it was
> logged as "removed". So somehow it wasn't _really_ removed.
>
> I digged deeper into the rabbit hole and found this peace of code:
>
> --cut here--
> final public class ThreadLocalMap extends InheritableThreadLocal {
>
>   public
>   final
>   Object childValue(Object parentValue) {
>     Hashtable ht = (Hashtable) parentValue;
>     if(ht != null) {
>       return ht.clone();
>     } else {
>       return null;
>     }
>   }
> }
> --cut here--
>
> At this point, the hashtable containing the key/values is cloned
> when a child thread is spawned. That would explain, why I see that
> the complained key/value still exists, although I removed it from the
> MDC. It still exists in the cloned instance on the spawned child thread
> I guess!
>
> I verified it by debugging within eclipse and set a breakpoint there,
> simply returning null instead of ht.clone(). And voila: no complaining
> anymore when shutting down.
>
> Since I'm not too deep into log4j, could someone of the devs please
> shed some light on this, please?
>
> I'm wondering, who will remove the ThreadLocalMap on the spawned child
> threads? Since MDC.remove() will do this only on my parent thread
> manually kicked by the filter.
>
> Or, maybe I'm completely wrong with this :).
>
> Thanks
> Veit
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