How to use log4j's FileAppenders asynchronously?

Question

I work on a low-latency trading application. We\'d like to increase the amount of lof4j logging that we write to file, whilst minimising the impact on our end-to-end processing

Answer 1

Yes, the appenders are synchronous. You want something like this:

http://www.spartanjava.com/2009/asynchronous-logging-with-log4j/