Sorry my message was unclear. RollingRandomAccessFile appender does not _need_ async loggers, it's just that if you choose to use async loggers, you will get the side-effect of regular flushing in the background. So it achieves your goal (of flushing the buffer to disk.)
You can also set immediateFlush to true to achieve this, but this will write to disk on _every_ event *in your application thread*. If performance is important, async logging is 10-20 times faster than synchronous logging. The difference between the normal file appender and random access file is much smaller (random access file appender is only 1.3 - 2 times faster than file appender). :-) Sent from my iPhone > On 2016/02/03, at 21:01, Veit Guna <[email protected]> wrote: > > immediateFlush="true" seems to work - without adding async config options. > Adding the system property does also work, but needs disruptor.jar on > the classpath - as it seems. Otherwise a ClassNotFoundException occurs. > Although the documentation states, that the RandomAccessFile appenders do > _not_ need the disruptor.jar ;). > > Ok then. Since I don't want to add an additional dependency, I would go for > immediateFlush="true". But now I'm wondering whether it would be better to > just use the normal RollingFileAppender with not specifying flush behavior at > all. Which one is faster in synchronous mode :)? > > Thanks > Veit > > > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 03. Februar 2016 um 12:37 Uhr > Von: "Veit Guna" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Aw: Re: RollingRandomAccessFile and emtpy log file > Hi Remko. > > I've read about the AsyncLoggerContextSelector but I didn't try it - to be > honest. As the documentation doesn't state anything about > that the RollingRandomAccessFile appender needs async functionality, I didn't > took this into account. > Maybe there could be added some hint in the documentation about that (needs > async or not)? Or maybe just don't allow starting up log4j when > the configuration is (obviously) wrong :)? > > So I'll check for the async configuration option and report back. > > Thanks! > Veit > > > > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 03. Februar 2016 um 12:13 Uhr > Von: "Remko Popma" <[email protected]> > An: "Log4J Users List" <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: RollingRandomAccessFile and emtpy log file > I would say immediateFlush but that doesn't explain why you're not seeing the > update until after logging 600 KB when the buffer is only 256 KB... > > Have you tried setting system property > -DLog4jContextSelector=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.AsyncLoggerContextSelector > to switch on async loggers? This will ensure the buffer is always flushed to > disk, but it uses smart batching to achieve this in an efficient manner (and > it happens on the background thread, so no impact on your application). > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 2016/02/03, at 17:47, Veit Guna <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> I'm using log4j 2.5 with the RollingRandomAccessFile. When the application >> starts up and performs logging, the logfile >> gets created, but nothing is written to it. Only after I stop the >> application the content appears. I also doublechecked the 256KB >> buffer. But logging 600KB doesn't seem to trigger a write to the file. >> Console appender is working fine. >> >> Any idea what I'm missing? >> >> Here's my configuration: >> >> --cut here-- >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >> <Configuration> >> >> <Properties> >> <Property name="logsPath">${sys:app.logs:-${env:APP_LOGS:-logs}}</Property> >> </Properties> >> >> <Appenders> >> <RollingRandomAccessFile name="rollingFileAppender" >> fileName="${logsPath}/app.log" >> filePattern="${logsPath}/app-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log" immediateFlush="false"> >> <PatternLayout> >> <pattern>%d %-5p [%mdc{RQID}] [%c{1}] - %m%n</pattern> >> </PatternLayout> >> <Policies> >> <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="10 MB" /> >> </Policies> >> <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="5" /> >> </RollingRandomAccessFile> >> <Console name="consoleAppender" target="SYSTEM_OUT"> >> <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p [%mdc{RQID}] [%c{1}] - %m%n" /> >> </Console> >> </Appenders> >> >> <Loggers> >> <Logger name="com.acme.app" level="info" /> >> >> <!-- spring --> >> <Logger name="org.springframework.security" level="info" /> >> <Logger name="org.springframework.transaction" level="info" /> >> <Logger name="org.springframework.orm.jpa" level="info" /> >> >> <!-- log SQL statements --> >> <Logger name="org.hibernate.SQL" level="error" /> >> <!-- log bind parameters --> >> <Logger name="org.hibernate.type" level="error" /> >> >> <Root level="info"> >> <AppenderRef ref="consoleAppender" /> >> <AppenderRef ref="rollingFileAppender" /> >> </Root> >> </Loggers> >> >> </Configuration> >> --cut here-- >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
