log4net BufferingForwardingAppender performance issue
EDIT 2 : I have solved the problem (see answer below) Please note that the problem potentially affects all appenders decorated with BufferingForwardingAppender as well as all appenders inheriting from BufferingAppenderSkeleton (respectively : AdoNetAppender, RemotingAppender, SmtpAppender and SmtpPickupDirAppender) * I was doing some very basic benchs of log4net and I tried to decorate a RollingFileAppender with a BufferingForwardingAppender. I experience terrible performance going through the BufferingForwardingAppender instead of directly through the RollingFileAppender and I really don't