diff --git a/lib/java/src/main/java/org/apache/thrift/server/TThreadPoolServer.java b/lib/java/src/main/java/org/apache/thrift/server/TThreadPoolServer.java
index 82d3a29..06fdeec 100644
--- a/lib/java/src/main/java/org/apache/thrift/server/TThreadPoolServer.java
+++ b/lib/java/src/main/java/org/apache/thrift/server/TThreadPoolServer.java
@@ -275,7 +275,6 @@
     }
 
     private void logException(Exception x) {
-      LOGGER.debug("Error processing request", x);
       // We'll usually receive RuntimeException types here
       // Need to unwrap to ascertain real causing exception before we choose to ignore
       // Ignoring err-logging all transport-level/type exceptions and SocketExceptions
diff --git a/lib/java/src/test/resources/log4j.properties b/lib/java/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
index ab9beba..733994b 100644
--- a/lib/java/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
+++ b/lib/java/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # log4j configuration used during build and unit tests
-log4j.rootLogger=debug,stdout
+log4j.rootLogger=warn,stdout
 log4j.threshold=ALL
 log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
 log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout