RolloingFileAppender - setMaxBackupIndex

2001-12-03 Thread T Master
According to the javadocs (extract below) for log4j v 1.1.3, there is no way to have an unlimited number of backups. 0 = no backups 1 .. n = backup files Is there a possibility of say -1 maning unlimited? Or is there another workaround? T Master public void setMaxBackupIndex(int maxBackups)

Re: RolloingFileAppender - setMaxBackupIndex

2001-12-03 Thread Kevin Steppe
You are correct. In fact with the 1.1.3 and 1.2 alpha2 implementations you -really- don't want to make the max index very large. On roll over, it attempts to rename all the files, which will take a long time if you have > 10k files... If you don't want an arbitrary limit but don't expect ten of