perfsonar development work

[Roman Lapacz <>]

Gijs Molenaar wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, we may expect that some of our services will receive  a lot of 
requests frequently all the time or during long period. I don't mind to 
change log level in this case and use DEBUG.

Roman


> > 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