[logback-dev] MDC/ThreadLocal not being cleared properely?

[Marcel Stör]

On 18.10.10 12:57, Marcel Stör wrote:
> I'm wondering whether slf4j/logback (potentially) suffers from the same
> problems as log4j:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/log4j-user@logging.apache.org/msg11921.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/log4j-dev@logging.apache.org/msg11378.html
>
> I'd switch from slf4j/log4j to slf4j/logback if this solved the issue.
>
> [Abstract]
> If you don't want to go through the above referenced posts...
> According to Tomcat's (>=6.0.24) "memory leak detection" listener the
> log4j MDC has a memory leak: "A web application created a ThreadLocal
> with key of type (...) and a value of type (...) but failed to remove it
> when the web application was stopped." That's because log4j doesn't
> provide something like ThreadLocal#remove.

By coincidence (i.e. because there was activity there) I noticed that 
http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBCLASSIC-183 deals with this exact issue.
Looks like logback will provide a fix - in contrast to log4j.

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