[logback-dev] synchronization style?

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen]

Ceki Gulcu skrev:
> Also note that Sun excepted my bug report on this issue. See
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6855216
>
I see that it is registered as a wontfix bug and linked to 
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4985566

which says that "The JVM does not entirely isolate java threads from the 
scheduling properites of the underlying operating system." and that you 
should use the concurrent utils instead.

I have not followed this closely, but is that an option?
> Your request for fair locking in appenders is not
> unreasonable. However, it will cause a measurable slow down in a large
> number of cases. It also feels like fixing the JVM. So, I need more
> evidence before going down the path of fair locking.
If the conclusion is that "it depends" how to do this right, perhaps it 
should be configurable?

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