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------- Additional Comments From meling@acm.org  2004-12-20 11:22 -------
I support any attempt to fix this bug, as I also have experienced this problem 
on several occasions.  SO PLEASE FIX IT.

Hein Meling


(In reply to comment #11)
> I feel a bit frustrated because I've been bitten in the ass a few times
> encountering this "contrived" problem and I haven't been taken very
> seriously pointing this out.  As I have tried to explain, this is
> something that has happened before on servers at this company, and it's
> something we'd like to have fixed.
> 
> If you one day turned on DEBUG and soon watched your server lock up,
> you'd be shaking your fist at whoever designed log4j.  It is not just
> some annoying bug, it's also something that can result in your server
> hanging.  And I'd rather have the server reboot than do that...  I admit
> my test case was "contrived", but in the real world people employ
> multiple levels of indirection and the actual triggering mechanism can
> be quite convoluted.  And it can lurk until one unlucky day somebody
> unknowingly turns on DEBUG.
> 
> I thought in the quest for helping fix this bug we could improve
> concurrency and multi-threading.  Even if you think this bug is dumb,
> wouldn't you like to improve in this area?
> 
> I sent out some changes that will maintain compatibility and fix this
> issue, have you seen them?
> 
> I've also talked to several people who use JBoss who have run into this 
before.  



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