Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
Hi,
I am currently using Log4j version 2.3, but might be able to update to a newer
version if that would help.
I have a log4j2.xml file containing more than thirty RollingFileAppenders (one
per product component). Most of these RollingFileAppenders will not be written
to until the user turns on logging via our product's user interface. By
default, the AppenderRefs that reference these RollingFileAppenders have the
"level" attribute set to a value of "OFF". Once the user turns on logging from
the user interface, the "level" attribute will be updated with a value of
"INFO", "DEBUG", etc. And, once the updated log4j2.xml file is persisted, the
code will then call LoggerContext.reconfigure() to get Log4j to read in the new
log4j2.xml file, so the new log levels take effect.
My question is whether there is a way to tell Log4j to defer log file creation
when nothing will initially write to the file (e.g. all references to the
Appender have a level of "OFF")? Having lots of zero sized log files is not
that big of an issue, although not completely optimal. However, having too
many open file handles that are not doing anything, could potentially become an
issue. Note that I do not have control over the number of Appenders configured
for the product. Each product component team contributes its Appender and
Loggers to log4j2.xml.
To work around the open file handle issue at server startup time, I am
currently using the Log4j2 private core API calls to loop through the
AppenderRefs to determine which ones are "OFF", and then I'm calling the
RollingFileAppender.stop() method to close the output stream. If anyone has
any ideas that would avoid creating and opening the log files in the first
place, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks and regards,
-Cheryl
p.s. for reference, the relevant log4j2.xml snippets follow:
<Appenders>
<RollingFile
fileName="${sys:com.compellent.msaserviceDir}/etc/compservices/debuglogs/Scheduler/Scheduler.debuglog"
filePattern="${sys:com.compellent.msaserviceDir}/etc/compservices/debuglogs/Scheduler/Scheduler_%i.debuglog.gz"
name="debug.Scheduler">
<PatternLayout>
<Pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p {%C:%M} [%marker] (%t) -
%msg%n</Pattern>
</PatternLayout>
<Policies>
<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="50 MB"/>
</Policies>
<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="10"/>
<Filters>
<MarkerFilter marker="Scheduler" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
</Filters>
</RollingFile>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<Logger includeLocation="true" level="TRACE" name="debugLogger">
<AppenderRef level="DEBUG" ref="debug.ModuleManager"/>
<AppenderRef level="OFF" ref="debug.Scheduler"/>
</Logger>
</Loggers>
