Re: [log4perl-devel] Limit appender

[Mike S. <b2...@pe...>]

Kevin Goess wrote on 3/4/2004, 9:41 AM:

 > Hey, Mike, I was just looking at your new Limit appender.  Do you think
 > it should have a ceiling set on the number of messages it can
 > accumulate, limiting the amount of memory it might use up?

Absolutely, I'll add it. Recently, I stumbled across an article in 
Sysadmin Magazine (march issue) on "Logsurfer" -- it allows for 
specifying all kinds of trigger conditions on existing logfiles: If a 
certain number of messages are received, or even if there wasn't a 
message for a given timeframe:

     http://www.cert.dfn.de/eng/logsurf/
     http://www.cert.dfn.de/eng/logsurf/logsurfer.conf.4.man

I've been thinking about maybe adding that kind of functionality to 
Limit, to have this kind of control even before the messages are being 
written.

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-- Mike
Mike Schilli
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