Archiving mechanism

Question

Hi,

I'm working on an archiving mechanism of my application's log files and would like some advice.

What I want to do: When receiving a LogEntry, the LogListenerService will save it in a buffer and at some point it will print all the log entries in a file. When the file reaches a certain size an archiving service is called that will zip the contents of the log files and clean it.

I've implemented most of the functionality but have some questions:

1. How do I go about defining the ideal size of the buffer?
2. How do I make sure the log file size is kept under a given "maximum size"?

Thanks

Answer 1

Answering my own question.. :)

1. Depends on the application but the maximum memory an application can use is 16MB.
2. Simply by adding a check before writing to the file (I was hoping for a cleverer way)

Answer 2

Have you considered e.g. DroidDrop instead of rolling your own? (Caveat: haven't tested it myself yet.)