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Remko Popma commented on LOG4J2-1080:
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Can you raise a separate Jira ticket for this and attach an example
configuration?
> Drop events when the RingBuffer is full
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> Key: LOG4J2-1080
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1080
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: tzachi
> Assignee: Remko Popma
> Fix For: 2.5.1
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> Attachments: AsyncLogger.dropEvents.patch
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> I am running into performance issue with an appender, in a certain scenario
> (attached at the bottom), that causes RingBuffer to reach its full capacity.
> When that happens I can see that my app throughput drops significantly.
> I think it will be really useful to be able to configure the RingBuffer
> handler to be able to drop events whenever the buffer reaches its capacity,
> instead of what seems currently as blocking, as I don't want the logging to
> affect the main application.
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> Here is the scenario that led me to this request:
> I am currently testing the log4j-flume-ng appender and running into some
> issues. It seems like whenever log4j appender fails to log an event it causes
> the disruptor ring buffer to get full which slows down the whole system.
> My setup looks more or less like that:
> process 1: Java app which uses log4j2 (with flume-ng’s Avro appender)
> process 2: local flume-ng which gets the logs on using an Avro source and
> process them
> Here are my findings:
> When Flume (process 2) is up and running, everything actually looks really
> good. The ring buffer capacity is almost always full and there are no
> performance issues. The problem starts when I shut down process 2 - I am
> trying to simulate a case in which this process crashes, as I do not want it
> to effect process 1. As soon as I shut down flume I start getting exceptions
> produced by log4j telling me they cannot append the log - so far it makes
> sense. The thing is, that at the same time I can see that the ring buffer
> starts to fill up. As long as it’s not totally full process’s 1 throughput
> stays the same. The problem gets serious as soon as the buffer reaches full
> capacity. When that happens the throughput drops in 80% and it does not seem
> to recover from this state. But, as soon as I restart process 2, things get
> back to normal pretty quick - the buffer gets emptied, and the throughput
> climbs back to what it was before. I assume that from some reason a fail to
> append makes the RingBuffer consumer thread significantly slower.
> Besides checking why the flume appender preform slower when an exception is
> thrown, I wish I could just discard the log events when the buffer gets full.
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