Re: [OT] Batch-processing of emailed log4j log messages

2010-02-24 Thread André Warnier
Peter Crowther wrote: On 24 February 2010 18:38, André Warnier wrote: Come to think of it, the whole thing in perl is probably a 10-liner, using a hundreth of the memory you'd need with Java. Yep, absolutely - the kind of processing that perl was designed for, and is very good at. I'd make o

Re: [OT] Batch-processing of emailed log4j log messages

2010-02-24 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, .. Care to throw down the gauntlet with some code? I'd love to see something that can coalesce log messages in such a way. Me and my big mouth. This was meant to be a troll, triggering a flame. It wasn't meant

Re: [OT] Batch-processing of emailed log4j log messages

2010-02-24 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 2/24/2010 1:38 PM, André Warnier wrote: > André Warnier wrote: >> Pid wrote: >>> On 24/02/2010 17:17, Mark H. Wood wrote: An alternative approach: you could pump the messages through a mailing-list digest builder. You may get 100

Re: [OT] Batch-processing of emailed log4j log messages

2010-02-24 Thread Peter Crowther
On 24 February 2010 18:38, André Warnier wrote: > Come to think of it, the whole thing in perl is probably a 10-liner, using a > hundreth of the memory you'd need with Java. Yep, absolutely - the kind of processing that perl was designed for, and is very good at. I'd make other comments about pe

Re: [OT] Batch-processing of emailed log4j log messages

2010-02-24 Thread André Warnier
André Warnier wrote: Pid wrote: On 24/02/2010 17:17, Mark H. Wood wrote: An alternative approach: you could pump the messages through a mailing-list digest builder. You may get 100 messages in five minutes, but you only get interrupted once. Sorry, I've never run a digested list so I don't h

Re: [OT] Batch-processing of emailed log4j log messages

2010-02-24 Thread André Warnier
Pid wrote: On 24/02/2010 17:17, Mark H. Wood wrote: An alternative approach: you could pump the messages through a mailing-list digest builder. You may get 100 messages in five minutes, but you only get interrupted once. Sorry, I've never run a digested list so I don't have a name handy. Th

Re: [OT] Batch-processing of emailed log4j log messages

2010-02-24 Thread Pid
On 24/02/2010 17:17, Mark H. Wood wrote: An alternative approach: you could pump the messages through a mailing-list digest builder. You may get 100 messages in five minutes, but you only get interrupted once. Sorry, I've never run a digested list so I don't have a name handy. That's smart,

Re: [OT] Batch-processing of emailed log4j log messages

2010-02-24 Thread Mark H. Wood
An alternative approach: you could pump the messages through a mailing-list digest builder. You may get 100 messages in five minutes, but you only get interrupted once. Sorry, I've never run a digested list so I don't have a name handy. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu

[OT] Batch-processing of emailed log4j log messages

2010-02-24 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, We use log4j for logging in our webapps, and I'm considering enabling email notifications of errors. Not that it would ever happen (of course!), but I want to avoid a situation where some bug is triggered and thousands of log messages are emitted