From f4ac934afe1d91bb0cc1bb6dafc77a94165aa740 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: reivilibre <38398653+reivilibre@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 11:30:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert use of PeriodicallyFlushingMemoryHandler by default
 (#10515)

---
 changelog.d/10515.feature   | 1 +
 docs/sample_log_config.yaml | 5 +----
 synapse/config/logger.py    | 5 +----
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/10515.feature

diff --git a/changelog.d/10515.feature b/changelog.d/10515.feature
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..db277d9ecd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/10515.feature
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add a buffered logging handler which periodically flushes itself.
diff --git a/docs/sample_log_config.yaml b/docs/sample_log_config.yaml
index b088c83405..669e600081 100644
--- a/docs/sample_log_config.yaml
+++ b/docs/sample_log_config.yaml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ handlers:
     # will be a delay for INFO/DEBUG logs to get written, but WARNING/ERROR
     # logs will still be flushed immediately.
     buffer:
-        class: synapse.logging.handlers.PeriodicallyFlushingMemoryHandler
+        class: logging.handlers.MemoryHandler
         target: file
         # The capacity is the number of log lines that are buffered before
         # being written to disk. Increasing this will lead to better
@@ -36,9 +36,6 @@ handlers:
         # be written to disk.
         capacity: 10
         flushLevel: 30  # Flush for WARNING logs as well
-        # The period of time, in seconds, between forced flushes.
-        # Messages will not be delayed for longer than this time.
-        period: 5
 
     # A handler that writes logs to stderr. Unused by default, but can be used
     # instead of "buffer" and "file" in the logger handlers.
diff --git a/synapse/config/logger.py b/synapse/config/logger.py
index dcd3ed1dac..ad4e6e61c3 100644
--- a/synapse/config/logger.py
+++ b/synapse/config/logger.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ handlers:
     # will be a delay for INFO/DEBUG logs to get written, but WARNING/ERROR
     # logs will still be flushed immediately.
     buffer:
-        class: synapse.logging.handlers.PeriodicallyFlushingMemoryHandler
+        class: logging.handlers.MemoryHandler
         target: file
         # The capacity is the number of log lines that are buffered before
         # being written to disk. Increasing this will lead to better
@@ -79,9 +79,6 @@ handlers:
         # be written to disk.
         capacity: 10
         flushLevel: 30  # Flush for WARNING logs as well
-        # The period of time, in seconds, between forced flushes.
-        # Messages will not be delayed for longer than this time.
-        period: 5
 
     # A handler that writes logs to stderr. Unused by default, but can be used
     # instead of "buffer" and "file" in the logger handlers.
-- 
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