Log4j | Disordering in the time of logging

[Arnav Velimala]

Hi All,

Following is the sample logging of our application. The appln uses log4j for logging.
If you can notice, the logging is not in order. our application demands the logging to be
in correct order. Can anyone helpme in solving this?

   
01 May 2009 10:58:39,788@emp105@getPartInfo
01 May 2009 13:47:24,610@emp190;mail@search
01 May 2009 13:49:17,276@emp190;mail@search
01 May 2009 13:51:07,811@emp190;mail@search
01 May 2009 13:52:34,243@emp190;mail@search
01 May 2009 14:05:44,390@emp193@getFoo
01 May 2009 23:12:30,766@emp112@getPartInfo
04 May 2009 02:08:23,514@emp123@getPartInfo
03 May 2009 19:10:19,860@emp123@getFoo
04 May 2009 02:12:08,732@emp123@getPartInfo
03 May 2009 19:14:12,337@emp123@getInventoryDetails
03 May 2009 19:14:58,142@emp123@getInventoryDetails
04 May 2009 02:15:48,930@emp128@GetSAPDetails
04 May 2009 02:16:15,568@emp128@GetSAPDetails
03 May 2009 19:21:24,772@emp123@getInventoryDetails
03 May 2009 19:21:45,631@emp123@getInventoryDetails
03 May 2009 19:22:08,866@emp123@getInventoryDetails
04 May 2009 03:04:28,051@emp128@getPartWhereUsedInfo
04 May 2009 03:06:12,250@emp128@getPartInfoDetails
04 May 2009 03:06:12,250@emp128@getInventoryDetails
04 May 2009 03:09:48,726@emp128@getPartWhereUsedInfo
04 May 2009 03:11:14,434@emp128@GetSAPDetails
04 May 2009 03:11:32,046@emp128@GetSAPDetails
04 May 2009 03:11:55,460@emp128@GetSAPDetails
 

Log4j configuration:

   
log4j.logger.usagelog=INFO,usagelogAppender
log4j.appender.usagelogAppender=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.usagelogAppender.File=/path/to/logs/WEB-INF/classes/logs/usage.log
log4j.appender.usagelogAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.usagelogAppender.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{DATE} %p %m%n
log4j.appender.usagelogAppender.MaxFileSize=1000KB
log4j.appender.usagelogAppender.MaxBackupIndex=50
 

Our application runs on Apache Tomcat/4.1.31 and the servers are in US.

thank you,
Aarnav

[Arnav Velimala]

Hi All,

Any thoughts/Suggestions/Help ?!!

thanks,
Arnav

[Arnav Velimala]

Hi All,

We have figured the solution. just wanna share with you guys...

Actually, the above logging is done by two load-balanced tomcat servers...(sorry that i didn't mention in my problem statement)
One server was using GMT and the other was using a different Timezone. So, there was this difference.

We just set the timezone environment variable("TZ") in startup.sh...and it was logging properly.

thanks & Best Rgds,
Arnav