> Making the appender async is a major change and it has ramifications that > might prove problematic like unflushed buffers. > And if we make the buffer of size 1 then its really synchronous again, > isn't it? >
Yes. What's the point? A file appender has to be async if it wants to be fast. See: http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/async.html#Performance It's left up to whoever uses the framework to decide if he wants performance or safety.
