[jboss-dev] Re: Excessive logging in AS 4.2.3 and AS 5

[Galder Zamarreno]

Hi,

Jay Balunas wrote:
> I posted this up to the Design of POJO Server forum, but I'm not sure if that was the correct place there was not a "Design of AS" ;-)
> 
> While doing some performance testing for Seam I noticed that the default logging for AS 4.2.3 and AS 5.0 CR2 was set to debug, Note that console logging is limited to info so this only shows in the log.
> 
> This causes huge performance issues and exposes the user to way too much information. I have discussed this on the EAP side in JBPAPP-1187. They fixed it to some degree, but it still needs some work.
> 
> This is basically what I'm seeing
> 
> Starting 4.2.3 - 1.2 mb - with app
> Starting 5.0 CR2 - 1.3 mb - with no app
> 
> A few requests with one user and seam app creates MBs of logs.
> 
>>From my testing performance hit was huge. The average went from 14 sec to 4 sec with 50 users and 25 requests each when I switched the threshold for the log file to info. The server.log file size (with a few requests) was only 97kb compared to the 1.2 above with just starting the server. That test was with 4.2.3 not 5.0.
> 
> Is there a reason that the logging is set this way? My opinion is that we should give the user the best initial performance, and concise information.

IMO, it depends on what you're using it for. For 
production/staging/loadtesting yes, for development no.

cc'ing jboss-dev


> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jay Balunas 
> 

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Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Maintenance Engineer
JBoss, a division of Red Hat