I have met the same issue, when i configure  like below, logback can't remove old files before 3 days

 <appender name="test" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
<file>/var/log/test.log</file>
<rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy">
<fileNamePattern>/var/log/test.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.log.zip</fileNamePattern>
<maxFileSize>1MB</maxFileSize>
<maxHistory>3</maxHistory>
<totalSizeCap>10MB</totalSizeCap>
</rollingPolicy>
<encoder>
<Pattern>${ENCODER_PATTERN}</Pattern>
<charset>UTF-8</charset>
</encoder>
</appender>