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Logging for SourcePawn

This is a Sourcemod extension that wraps the spdlog library to enhance SourcePawn logging and debugging.

Features

1. Very fast, much faster than LogMessage

   • spdlog benchmarks | log4sp benchmarks

2. Each Logger and Sink can customize the log level

3. Each Logger and Sink can customize the log message pattern

4. Each Logger can customize the flush policy

5. Each Logger can have multiple Sink

   • For example: A Logger that has both ServerConsoleSink and DailyFileSink is similar to LogMessage

6. Each Logger can dynamic change the log level and pattern

   • see server command "sm log4sp"

7. Supports asynchronous Logger

8. Supports format parameters with variable numbers

   • Parameter formatting usage is consistent with LogMessage

   • The maximum length of a variable parameter string is 2048 characters If characters exceeding this length will be truncated If longer message need to be log, non AmxTpl API can be used, e.g. void Info(const char [] msg)

9. Supports backtrace

   • When enabled, Trace and Debug level log message are stored in a circular buffer and only output explicitly after calling DumpBacktrace()

10. Supports various log targets

    • ServerConsoleSink (Similar to PrintToServer)

    • ClientConsoleSink (Similar to PrintToConsole)

    • BaseFileSink (Similar to LogToFile when sv_logecho is 0)

    • DailyFileSink (Similar to LogMessage when sv_logecho is 0)

    • RotatingFileSink

Documentation

Documentation can be found in the wiki pages.

Supported Games

log4sp.ext should work for all games on Linux and Windows.

Benchmarks

Test platform: Windows 11 + VMware + Ubuntu 24.04 LTS + sourcemod 1.11

Host configuration: AMD Ryzen 7 6800H + 32 GB Memory

VMware configuration: 1 CPU + 8 kernel + 4 GB Memory

Test case 1: benchmark-log4sp.sp

Test case 2: benchmark-sm-logging.sp

Single thread (Synchronous)

[benchmark] base-file-st      | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.268 secs   3719518/sec
[benchmark] daily-file-st     | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.278 secs   3589439/sec
[benchmark] rotating-file-st  | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.279 secs   3578598/sec
[benchmark] server-console-st | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  5.609 secs    178255/sec

Multi thread (Asynchronous)

# Queue size: 8192      Thread count: 1
[benchmark] base-file-block        | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.479 secs   2084762/sec
[benchmark] daily-file-block       | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.488 secs   2046592/sec
[benchmark] rotating-file-block    | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.462 secs   2162868/sec
[benchmark] server-console-block   | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  8.422 secs    118725/sec

[benchmark] base-file-overrun      | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.442 secs   2259856/sec
[benchmark] daily-file-overrun     | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.438 secs   2280891/sec
[benchmark] rotating-file-overrun  | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.442 secs   2260684/sec
[benchmark] server-console-overrun | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.379 secs   2632167/sec


# Queue size: 8192      Thread count: 4
[benchmark] base-file-block        | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  1.049 secs    952753/sec
[benchmark] daily-file-block       | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  1.086 secs    920584/sec
[benchmark] rotating-file-block    | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  1.034 secs    967049/sec
[benchmark] server-console-block   | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed 15.784 secs     63354/sec

[benchmark] base-file-overrun      | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.439 secs   2273952/sec
[benchmark] daily-file-overrun     | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.451 secs   2212609/sec
[benchmark] rotating-file-overrun  | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.453 secs   2204658/sec
[benchmark] server-console-overrun | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.372 secs   2684282/sec


# Queue size: 131072    Thread count: 4
[benchmark] base-file-block        | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed   0.998 secs   1001216/sec
[benchmark] daily-file-block       | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed   0.973 secs   1027070/sec
[benchmark] rotating-file-block    | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed   0.956 secs   1045255/sec
[benchmark] server-console-block   | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  13.952 secs     71671/sec

[benchmark] base-file-overrun      | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed   0.472 secs   2116635/sec
[benchmark] daily-file-overrun     | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed   0.441 secs   2264892/sec
[benchmark] rotating-file-overrun  | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed   0.478 secs   2091503/sec
[benchmark] server-console-overrun | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed   0.385 secs   2592245/sec


# Queue size: 8192      Thread count: 8
[benchmark] base-file-block        | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  1.135 secs    881010/sec
[benchmark] daily-file-block       | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  1.183 secs    845069/sec
[benchmark] rotating-file-block    | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  1.193 secs    838199/sec
[benchmark] server-console-block   | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed 14.925 secs     67000/sec

[benchmark] base-file-overrun      | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.533 secs   1875363/sec
[benchmark] daily-file-overrun     | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.569 secs   1754767/sec
[benchmark] rotating-file-overrun  | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.508 secs   1967969/sec
[benchmark] server-console-overrun | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  0.394 secs   2532556/sec

Sourcemod logging

As a reference, sourcemod logging API was also tested

[benchmark] LogMessage    | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed 10.740 secs     93108/sec
[benchmark] LogToFile     | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  9.091 secs    109989/sec
[benchmark] LogToFileEx   | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  8.823 secs    113336/sec
[benchmark] PrintToServer | Iters 1000000 | Elapsed  5.779 secs    173024/sec

Credits

• gabime spdlog library implements most of the functionality, log4sp.ext wraps the spdlog API for SourcePawn to use

• Fyren, nosoop, Deathreus provides solution for managing the Sink Handle

If I missed anyone, please contact me.