[logback-user] Multiple web-applications logging to same file

[Ceki Gulcu]

Hi Alex,
Thank you for this feedback. Your propsal to use tryLock instead of lock 
seems highly appropriate to me. I've assigned LBCORE-168 to myself to 
ensure that it gets fixed soon.

Cheers,
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Ceki
On 08.04.2011 15:32, Alex Vb wrote:
> I created a bug report about it a while back:
> http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBCORE-168
> I am not a windows expert by any stretch of the imagination, but in a
> windows cluster you can define a single owner for a shared SAN, this
> means if one server goes down, the other automatically takes up
> ownership of the drive which should be relatively transparant to other
> systems. However there is a 10-ish second delay in the switch and during
> those 10 seconds, something can go awefully wrong with the file locks in
> prudent mode it seems. Basically the JVM reports the log file as locked
> and because the lock() is blocking the thread trying to lock it will
> hang indefinately. The current custom appender we have written uses
> tryLock() multiple times with a delay and after x (configurable) amount
> of failures it dies gracefully.
> It is hard to write a testcase for this for obvious reasons, but I was
> able (at least back when the issue was filed) to recreate the situation
> repeatedly.