Why does the nightly build produces a huge log file during startup?

[Zsolt Koppany <zk...@web.de>]

Hi,

I have copied the latest nightly build and after extraction I copied 
jakarta-struts/webapps into the tomcat -4.1.12 webapps directory. It takes a 
very long time to start tomcat (it was not the case before I installed 
struts) and a huge log file (100Mb) was created (I redirect stderr and stdout 
into a log4j file). I find a log file with the size pretty unuseful because 
this is just the initialization.

How can I decrease the amount the information? I don't know whether this is 
realistic but I would not like to get more that a couple of Kb after startup.

Zsolt

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Re: Why does the nightly build produces a huge log file during startup?

[Eddie Bush <ek...@swbell.net>]

Is your application really large?  (Lots of actions etc?)
Do your classes print a lot of debugging output?
Have you tried configuring Log4J so "tone-down" the amount of output? 
 (see the log4j site about how to configure log4j)

I don't understand why you have so much being logged unless you simply 
have a lot of logging output being generated.  If it is system.out 
stuff, you're fu-bared (that's a technical term).  If you were smart and 
used commons-logging you can control it by setting up a reasonable 
log4j.properties file and adjusting the debug levels appropriately.

By setting up your log4j.properties file, you could conceivably 
configure it so that you got 0kb of output on startup.  I imagine the 
logging is what's causing it to start slow too.

Zsolt Koppany wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have copied the latest nightly build and after extraction I copied 
>jakarta-struts/webapps into the tomcat -4.1.12 webapps directory. It takes a 
>very long time to start tomcat (it was not the case before I installed 
>struts) and a huge log file (100Mb) was created (I redirect stderr and stdout 
>into a log4j file). I find a log file with the size pretty unuseful because 
>this is just the initialization.
>
>How can I decrease the amount the information? I don't know whether this is 
>realistic but I would not like to get more that a couple of Kb after startup.
>
>Zsolt
>

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