Tag: memory
Asynchronous logging with log4j
by ricardoz on Nov.25, 2009, under Articles, Performance, Security
In case you are not doing it already, using asynchronous logging is generally a good idea. You don’t want your application to slow down if the server IO is a little behind flushing all that logging to the filesystem. By making it asynchronous your application can continue running without having to wait for the log lines to be written to their final destination.
My personal choice for Java logging is log4j, there are a lot of different frameworks (including Suns own logging API), but log4j works great and is extremely flexible.
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