[LOG4J2-1032] Rollover startegy failing on high load

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.8
• Component/s: Appenders
• Assignee: Ralph Goers
• Reporter: Binoy Varghese
• Created: 28/May/15 15:58
• Updated: 16/Jan/17 06:45
• Resolved: 16/Jan/17 06:45

Description

On windows virtual machines, the roll over strategy simply fails and the log size becomes huge. This happens on high load on tomcat server.
Log4j2 is loaded from our application using below configuration

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="OFF">

	<!-- Appenders -->
	<Appenders>

		<RollingFile name="xxxRootAppender"
			fileName="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/xvx/com.xvx.connector.log"
			filePattern="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/xvx/com.xvx.connector-%d{dd-MM-yyyy}#%i.log">
			<PatternLayout pattern="[%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}][%t][%p] %m%n" />
			<Policies>
				<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
				<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100 MB" />
			</Policies>
			<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="50" />
		</RollingFile>

		<RollingFile name="xxxRequestResponseAppender"
			fileName="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/xvx/com.xvx.connector-request-response.log"
			filePattern="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/xvx/com.xvx.connector-request-response-%d{dd-MM-yyyy}#%i.log">
			<PatternLayout pattern="[%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}][%t][%p] %m%n" />
			<Policies>
				<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
				<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100 MB" />
			</Policies>
			<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="50" />
		</RollingFile>

		<RollingFile name="xxxTimeAppender"
			fileName="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/xvx/com.xvx.connector-time.log"
			filePattern="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/xvx/com.xvx.connector-time-%d{dd-MM-yyyy}#%i.log">
			<PatternLayout pattern="[%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}][%t][%p] %m%n" />
			<Policies>
				<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
				<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100 MB" />
			</Policies>
			<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="50" />
		</RollingFile>

		<!-- Spring framework Appender -->
		<RollingFile name="springFrameworkAppender"
			fileName="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/xvx/org.springframework.log"
			filePattern="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/xvx/org.springframework-%d{dd-MM-yyyy}#%i.log">
			<PatternLayout pattern="[%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}][%t][%p] %m%n" />
			<Policies>
				<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
				<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100 MB" />
			</Policies>
			<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="50" />
		</RollingFile>

		<!-- Spring jdbc Appender -->
		<RollingFile name="springjdbcAppender"
			fileName="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/xvx/org.springframework.jdbc.log"
			filePattern="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/xvx/org.springframework.jdbc-%d{dd-MM-yyyy}#%i.log">
			<PatternLayout pattern="[%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}][%t][%p] %m%n" />
			<Policies>
				<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
				<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100 MB" />
			</Policies>
			<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="50" />
		</RollingFile>
	</Appenders>

	<Loggers>
		<!-- 3rdparty Loggers -->
		<Logger name="com.github.isrsal.logging.LoggingFilter" level="DEBUG" additivity="false">
			<AppenderRef ref="xxxRequestResponseAppender" />
		</Logger>

		<Logger name="connector.timeLogger" level="OFF" additivity="false">
			<AppenderRef ref="xxxTimeAppender" />
		</Logger>

		<Logger name="org.springframework" level="OFF" additivity="false">
			<AppenderRef ref="springFrameworkAppender" />
		</Logger>

		<Logger name="org.springframework.jdbc" level="ALL" additivity="false">
			<AppenderRef ref="springjdbcAppender" />
		</Logger>

		<!-- Root Logger -->
		<Root level="ALL">
			<AppenderRef ref="xxxRootAppender" />
		</Root>
	</Loggers>
</Configuration>

we are using slf4j 1.7.7

Issue Links

• is related to: LOG4J2-1101 Date based file appender