Is DailyRollingFileAppender efficient or safe to use if log file is huge?

[shaoxianyang <ys...@hotmail.com>]

Hi,

I am using log4j 1.2.15.   I am pondering between DailyRollingFileAppender
and RollingFileAppender.  

For RollingFileAppender, I can enforce file size limit and MaxBackupIndex. 
But for DailyRollingFileAppender, i can not limit either. 

Aside from being difficult to planing disk space usage, does
DailyRollingFileAppender cause inefficiency if the log file become huge?  In
theory, the log4j just keeps a fiel descriptor and append to the end.  It
should not matter that much if the log file is big or small.    

Did I miss anything.  Any feedback or recommendation is appreciated.

Thanks.



Shaoxian Yang
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RE: Is DailyRollingFileAppender efficient or safe to use if log file is huge?

[Michael Erskine <mi...@ketech.com>]

I suggest you create a custom rolling file appender to do exactly what you need.

Regards,
Michael Erskine.


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