Greg, sorry you did not get a response earlier. Personally I use the priority setting almost exclusively. I set the root priority to "warn". This stops almost all of the trace messages before they get logged except the ones that I probably really care about (warn, error, fatal). Then I set the priority of individual loggers to the level I am interested in, say "debug" or "info". Doing it this way is primarily for development type activity, and is probably most useful when used in conjunction with the configureAndWatch() method on the configurators. You can update the configuration source (ie config file) to what you want the settings to be and they get applied without needing to take down the running environment. Also, using a tool like Chainsaw to view trace messages remotely has been extremely useful.
I have not had a need to use the appender threshold setting or the LevelRangeFilter in my development environment, but I can see why such tools would be useful in a deployed production environment where you want more control over where trace messages go. But, if you set the threshold/filter stuff, it is useful to remember that time will be spent processing the trace message to send it to the right place (all attached appenders and filters get a crack at the message). Where if you set the logger priority and check that priority before logging the message, virtually no time will be spent on the message since it will never be logged in the first place. hope it helps, -Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Abbas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 5:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Appender priorities > > > Well, my earlier message (#8631355) didn't elicit a response > so let me ask a > more succinct question. > > How do you all use logger priority, appender threshold (that is, > AppenderSkeleton.setThreshold()), and LevelRangeFilter? They > all appear to > do about the same thing, in different ways. Are one or two of > those almost > never used? Or do they work differently so you use different ones in > different cases? > > Thanks, > -greg. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
