Re: setting maxBackupIndex to high values hangs my app

2009-05-14 Thread Curt Arnold
Actually surprised, I thought there was a upper limit on the maxBackupIndex. If you have a high maxBackupIndex and a file rolls, it will attempt to sequentially rename all the files. Renaming is a risky and time-consuming operation, it would be much more reliable and faster if an appender

setting maxBackupIndex to high values hangs my app

2009-05-14 Thread prubel
I have an application that uses the RollingFileAppender under log4j 1.2.15 on 64-bit linux on intel. pru...@host /tmp/pr $ java -version java version "1.6.0_07" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b06) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0-b23, mixed mode) I'd like to