Production settings file for log4j?

Question

Here is my current log4j settings file. Are these settings ideal for production use or is there something I should remove/tweak or change? I ask because I was getting all my

Answer 1

Are you creating a Logger for each class using the standard private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Foo.class); where Foo is the class in which the logger is declared? If you only have 1 Logger instance in your entire application, there could be some contention if there is a lot of logging.