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Can logging using FileHandler be a bottleneck?
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Alexander Bunkenburg
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Joined: Nov 02, 2006
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Hello people
I am considering logging business events in a J2EE web application by using Java logging and FileHandler. I am wondering whether that could cause a performance bottleneck, since many log records will be written to the one file. I am doing google searches, but it seems people are not hindered by FileHandler.
What are your experiences and opinions?
Is logging a busy web application to one file with java logging and FileHandler likely to become performance bottleneck?
Thanks
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Lucy Hummel
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Joined: Apr 07, 2005
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HJi Alexander,
You got nothing for free.
If you log, memory, processor time are used to do it and you gain information what goes on in your application. You have good choices to switch trace mode to debug the system.
If you do not log, memory, processor time are free, but you do not have any clue what went wrong in a failure case.
The log stuff is already some years old so you can imangine that a lot of people, desingers have spent a lot of time to improve performance on the code.
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