At 08:52 30.08.2002 -0400, you wrote: >I have a problem with file handler in UNIX. It is related to log4j, but may >not caused by it. > >There are two web applications running, both using log4j. One is >Solaris/Weblogic and the other >Solaris/iPlanet. The WL one never had problem with file logging. But the >iPlanet always will have overflow file handler issue and eventually after >days the UNIX file resources is used up and appl. get locked. > >I understand log4j is thread safe. I also checked the code of log4j. It >seems that the files (appenders) get opened and kept open until >specifically get reset() or close(). My question is that > >(a) Should we close the appenders each event is logged? Or we should >justleave them open.
No, that would be excruciatingly slow. >(b) For the file hander of UNIX, for one file (appender) why would it use >multiple handler for one file? why not use kind of pooling access to the >file. How do you configure the appenders? Do you dynamically create a large number of appenders without ever closing them? >Please clarify if I have any misunderstandins. > > >Tony Yan -- Ceki -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
