On Mon, 19 May 2025 18:05:39 GMT, Michael Strauß <mstra...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 100 still looks excessive to me - it's unlikely that we'll have two 
>> different scenarios when this happens, so most of the time the log will have 
>> 100 identical traces.
>> 
>> I mean, one is probably enough, we could have 2 or 4 just to drive the 
>> message home.  Anything beyond 8 is simply annoying, don't you think?
>
> In general, we shouldn't suppress any exceptions that would otherwise be 
> logged. The only thing that makes this case a bit different is that with a 
> periodic timer, there's the potential for an inflated log that grows without 
> bounds. I think that defining a reasonable upper limit is enough to prevent 
> that; in particular, I think we shouldn't try to assume that any particular 
> number of logged failures (like 1 or 4) is "enough" for application 
> developers.

well, I still think it's way too high of a number, but the expectation is that 
once the dev sees a 100 traces in the log they'll fix it right away.

And if some company finds that all of a sudden their client logs exploded in 
size, they should have invested more in QA.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1811#discussion_r2096266254

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