Yes, there are many categories that are over verbose when it comes to logging. We log at DEBUG by default because it is just too painful to get users to turn it on. But then DEBUG should only be lifecycle calls (i.e. deployment time logging and low volume logging such as thread or database connection creation) not high volume runtime logging which should be TRACE Anyway, for production usage its not rocket science to change conf/jboss-log4j.xml | <root> | <priority value ="INFO" /> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4178299#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...