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Remko Popma edited comment on LOG4J2-1297 at 4/28/16 7:27 AM:
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*All Async Classic*
GC pauses are commonly 3 milliseconds or more. Reducing throughput does not 
significantly improve response time.
!ResponseTimeAllAsyncClassic5k-800k.png!

*All Async Garbage Free*
Response time can be kept at less than 1 millisecond at throughputs up to 
700,000. Response time starts to gets worse if throughput hits 800,000 msg/sec 
or more.
!ResponseTimeAllAsyncGarbageFree2.png!

*All Async Garbage Free (going too fast)*
Response time degrades at throughput of 1 million msg/sec or more.
TODO: make one graph "Too fast" for both classic and garbage-free?
!ResponseTimeAllAsyncGarbageFree.png!

*Synchronous Logging Garbage Free*
Response time can be kept at less than 3 milliseconds at throughput of 300,000 
msg/sec or less.
!ResponseTimeSyncGarbageFree.png!

*Synchronous Logging Classic*
GC pauses of 3 milliseconds are common, it is difficult to keep response time 
consistently low.
!ResponseTimeSyncClassic.png!


was (Author: rem...@yahoo.com):
*All Async Classic*
GC pauses are commonly 3 milliseconds or more. Reducing throughput does not 
significantly improve response time.
!ResponseTimeAllAsyncClassic5k-800k.png!

*All Async Garbage Free*
Response time can be kept at less than 1 millisecond at throughput of 800,000 
msg/sec or less.
!ResponseTimeAllAsyncGarbageFree2.png!

*All Async Garbage Free (going too fast)*
Response time becomes too high at throughput of 1 million msg/sec or more.
!ResponseTimeAllAsyncGarbageFree.png!

*Synchronous Logging Garbage Free*
Response time can be kept at less than 3 milliseconds at throughput of 300,000 
msg/sec or less.
!ResponseTimeSyncGarbageFree.png!

*Synchronous Logging Classic*
GC pauses of 3 milliseconds are common, it is difficult to keep response time 
consistently low.
!ResponseTimeSyncClassic.png!

> Document "gc-free" configuration and performance
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-1297
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1297
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Documentation
>    Affects Versions: 2.5
>            Reporter: Remko Popma
>            Assignee: Remko Popma
>             Fix For: 2.6
>
>         Attachments: LatencyHistogram.png, 
> ResponseTimeAllAsyncClassic5k-800k.png, ResponseTimeAllAsyncGarbageFree.png, 
> ResponseTimeAllAsyncGarbageFree2.png, ResponseTimeSyncClassic.png, 
> ResponseTimeSyncGarbageFree.png, garbage-free2.6-SyncThroughputLinux.png, 
> log4j-2.5-FlightRecording.png, log4j-2.6-FlightRecording.png
>
>
> Update the site with a description of which configurations are GC-free (i.e., 
> that don't create temporary objects in steady running state).
> Currently that means
> * Loggers are all asynchronous (Log4jContextSelector is set to 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.AsyncLoggerContextSelector).
> * The configuration does not contain a <Properties> section.
> * The "steady-state" appenders are either RandomAccessFile or 
> RollingRandomAccessFile Appenders (logging to any other appender will cause 
> temporary objects to be created - including ConsoleAppender).
> * The Layout is a PatternLayout that uses one of the pre-defined date 
> formats, does not have any regular expression replacements, and does not have 
> lookups (TODO: may need to restrict this further).
> * The thread name is cached (this is the 
> [default|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-467]). Running with 
> -DAsyncLogger.ThreadNameStrategy=UNCACHED will create garbage.
> * In user code, when logging a parameterized message, the number of 
> parameters is no more than ... (TBD pending discussion in LOG4J2-1278).
> * In user code, when logging a parameterized message, parameters of primitive 
> type are boxed in a reused StringBuilder (Log4j provides a utility to make 
> this relatively painless).
> Even with the above restrictions, Log4j may occasionally create garbage:
> * Initially StringBuilders are presized to 128 characters. They may grow for 
> larger messages (contributing to garbage in Old Gen). If  the StringBuilder 
> grows beyond 512 characters it is trimmed back to 512 characters to prevent 
> memory leaks from excessively long messages. (TODO: the resizing algorithm is 
> {{size = value.length * 2 + 2}}, so a better cutoff value is 518.)
> * Messages containing {{"$\{"}} will be converted to a String and 
> StrSubstitutor will be used to replace occurences of variables with their 
> matching values. Multiple temporary objects are created during this process.
> Furthermore, we need to explain that some of this functionality depends on 
> ThreadLocals and so is disabled by default in web applications to prevent 
> memory leaks. The page should also explain how to manually switch off the use 
> of ThreadLocals.
> Finally, the page should show a performance test comparison similar to the 
> [performance 
> section|http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/async.html#Performance] on 
> the Async Loggers page. I'm thinking a comparison between Logback, Log4j-1, 
> Log4j-2.0, Log4j-2.6 "classic" and Log4j-2.6 "gc-free" would be ideal.



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