[SLING-7676] Refactor LogWriter to use SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: Commons Log 5.1.6
• Component/s: Commons
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Julian Sedding
• Created: 20/May/18 10:59
• Updated: 02/Oct/23 10:06
• Resolved: 02/Oct/23 10:06

Description

As discussed in SLING-7660 and LOGBACK-266, the currently used FixedWindowRollingPolicy can be expensive when a lot of old files should be retained. This is because all files need to be renamed during log-file rotation, which can be expensive on some file systems.

The recommendation is to use SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy instead, which allows limiting the size of individual log files by adding a date field and a counter to each log-file's name.

Issue Links

• relates to: SLING-7660 LogManager configuration "Number of Log Files" limited to 20