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    all: Remove seelog logger. · a6965d49
    Josh Rickmar authored
    The btclog package has been changed to defining its own logging
    interface (rather than seelog's) and provides a default implementation
    for callers to use.
    
    There are two primary advantages to the new logger implementation.
    
    First, all log messages are created before the call returns.  Compared
    to seelog, this prevents data races when mutable variables are logged.
    
    Second, the new logger does not implement any kind of artifical rate
    limiting (what seelog refers to as "adaptive logging").  Log messages
    are outputted as soon as possible and the application will appear to
    perform much better when watching standard output.
    
    Because log rotation is not a feature of the btclog logging
    implementation, it is handled by the main package by importing a file
    rotation package that provides an io.Reader interface for creating
    output to a rotating file output.  The rotator has been configured
    with the same defaults that btcd previously used in the seelog config
    (10MB file limits with maximum of 3 rolls) but now compresses newly
    created roll files.  Due to the high compressibility of log text, the
    compressed files typically reduce to around 15-30% of the original
    10MB file.
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