What's more likely? An intermittent network issue, the logging service being momentarily down, or a local crash that only affects your buffering queue? If an

What's more likely? An intermittent network issue, the logging service being momentarily down, or a local crash that only affects your buffering queue? If an OOM happens, all bets are off anyway, since it has as much likelihood of taking out your application as it does your buffering code. The local buffering code might very well be part of the application in the first place, so the fate of the buffering code is the same as the application anyway. It seems you're trying very hard to contrive a situation where doing nothing is better than taking reasonable steps to counter occasional network hiccups.