Dear skk, Reading your XML file I do not see you use AsyncAppender but I see you still use two files to log to. As Ceki mentioned with an extra task for writing the messages you burden the job to someone else. To extend the analogue Ceki used the job is still in the office (CPU) and it may degrade the overall time consumed (Bob may be interrupted frequently by phone). So what is performance for you? log4j is very very flexible in configuring, filtering, extending, formatting ... One can imagine that this may cost some time somewhere. Is your logger that flexible too?
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