Hi Pranav, James Wilkinson and I worked up some code to do this. See http://markmail.org/message/pahnqti7yq4xoz7m
I am currently the bottleneck on this having not responded to James' last message :(. I'll get moving and hopefully we can contribute this code to the community soon. Cheers, Jerry ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pranav Varia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "log4net-user@logging.apache.org" <log4net-user@logging.apache.org> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 14:00:08 -0700 Subject: Throttling/Rollup feature in EventLogAppender > Is there a Throttling feature available or planned in EventLogAppender. > > If we log to event log a message that could potentially be logged at > frequency of one per incoming request to my web application, it could flood > the event log with millions of messages if/when things go wrong. If there > was a = way to roll them up every x seconds into a single event log message > (with a count of how many messages where rolledup), it would be useful to > me. > > Is there any such feature? Or workaround? > > Regards > > Pranav > > > >