Re: Stability of log4net

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:19:18AM -0000, Steve Slatcher wrote:
> I am currently evaluating log4net for use in a new project.  I am already 
> familiar with log4j so feel pretty comforatble with the feature set.  The 
> only concern is that log4net is no longer being maintained, and that there 
> are only beta releases of 1.2.
> 
> Do you think log4net is OK for production code?  Are there any particular 
> versions to go for from a stability point of view, or versions to avoid?

We've had some problems on SMP machines when logging from multiple
threads at the same time to the same logger. We're using
the RollingFileAppender for output. Sometimes the logging has stopped
completly (it would start again if we touched the configuration file,
causing it to be reloaded), sometimes we've had two log entries being
interleaved in the same line in the log file! Setting the affinity to
one processor has solved it for us. This is with the beta8 release.

/Sebastian
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