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Subject: RE: RollingFileAppender
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:58:11 +0100
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Thread-Topic: RollingFileAppender
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From: "Andrew Marlow" <Andrew.Marlow@icap.com>
To: "Log4J Users List" <log4j-user@logging.apache.org>

Cheung, Quinn wrote:
> Is there a file appender that uses a FIFO type of
> record-rolling? What I don't like about the
> RollingFileAppender is that it's not a FIFO per log entry.
> When all the log files are full, RollingFileAppender erases
> the entire contents of the oldest file instead of removing 1
> message at a time as needed.  Any ideas?

My understanding is that rolling files are used instead of cyclic logs. I w=
rote a cyclic log package for C++ ages ago (see http://cycliclogs.sourcefor=
ge.net) which is fine when disk space is tight. I was tempted to offer a ja=
va version of this but with log4j I think it's not needed. Now that gigs ar=
e as cheap as chips I think people are expected to set aside a large amount=
 of space such that it will not matter when the oldest logs are deleted.


> Thanks,
>=20
> Quinn


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