perfsonar development work

[Gijs Molenaar <>]

Hello Loukik,

Loukik Kudarimoti wrote:
> Hi Joost,
>
> It is possible to stop this logging. The log level is INFO so, if you 
> modify the log4j.properties file to not write any logs for INFO level, 
> they will disappear. Please bear in mind that you will loose all other 
> logs which are at the level 'INFO'. Other alternatives are log 
> circulation (restrict the max number of log files stored per level) and 
> limiting log file size.
>
> This log message can be quite useful while tracing a request which might 
> be causing problems/bugs but in your case, I agree that this message 
> might not be useful as you have a request coming in every 5 seconds.

I'm not sure if I agree on this point. Shouldn't INFO messages be 
information that is useful in a production environment, and messages 
useful for debugging a tracing requests DEBUG level?

I know we can decrease the verbosity level to WARNING or ERROR, but then 
we lose useful INFO messages from my MP which are not warnings or errors.


> Let us know if you need more help.
>
> Loukik.
>
>
> Joost de Mes wrote:
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > We have a keepalive mechanism in our flow subscription protocol that 
> > is used every 5 seconds.
> >
> > In the log-file of the MP I get two lines every request:
> >
> > 2007-02-16 13:19:16,576  INFO - RequestHandler: Service received a 
> > request
> > 2007-02-16 13:19:16,585  INFO - RequestHandler: Service sent a 
> > successful response
> >
> > This message is quite useless and not informative. Next to that, I 
> > have a lot of log-files filled with this message.
> >
> > So, is it possible to move these to DEBUG level, or delete them 
> > completely?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joost