Re: [log4perl-devel] appender/dispatcher that writes to per-category files

[Jonathan S. <sw...@po...>]

> So you want a custom appender that dynamically changes the file it's
> writing to. Since the appender's log() function gets  
> 'log4p_category' in
> its %param hash, this should be straight-forward to implement.
>
> Sounds like an interesting idea, I'm looking forward to it!
>

Heh, no doubt. :)

My main worry is number of open file handles. Especially with  
mod_perl, since a lot of those handles will be opened individually in  
the child processes. At the same time, I don't want to have to open  
and close each handle every time. Any idea what kind of limits on  
number of open handles I can expect to hit on a reasonable Unix system?