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Re: Is grizzly taking full advantage of nio?

From: Jeanfrancois Arcand <Jeanfrancois.Arcand_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:44:06 -0500

Salut,

hijacking the thread.

Igor Minar wrote:
> I had a brief discussion with colleagues about thread-count setting in
> glassfish.
>
> I understand that this is the max number of worker threads that grizzly
> can use, but what surprised me was that I believed that this wasn't the
> max number of concurrent connections that grizzly can process
> (concurrently send responses to). I know that the synchronous nature of
> JavaEE doesn't allow grizzly to do much magic, but I expected that
> grizzly could break the one thread per request paradigm for static
> resources.
>
> Unfortunately a simple tests with grizzly-v3-prelude and thread-count 5
> shows that this is not true:
>
> wget --tries=1 --limit-rate=100 http://localhost:8080/foo.txt ->>
> starts the download
> wget --tries=1 --limit-rate=100 http://localhost:8080/foo.txt ->>
> starts the download
> wget --tries=1 --limit-rate=100 http://localhost:8080/foo.txt ->>
> starts the download
> wget --tries=1 --limit-rate=100 http://localhost:8080/foo.txt ->>
> starts the download
> wget --tries=1 --limit-rate=100 http://localhost:8080/foo.txt ->>
> starts the download
> wget --tries=1 --limit-rate=100 http://localhost:8080/foo.txt ->>
> times out!!

This is a bug. The client should not times out and the request must
eventually be serviced. Can you file an issue here:

https://glassfish.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectIssues

Thanks

-- Jeanfrancois

>
> Am I missing something? In my pet-project grizzly-sendfile[1] I was able
> to create algorithms (still experimental) which can serve hundreds of
> downloads with just a handful of worker threads. Why doesn't grizzly do
> this for static resources? The same technique could also be used for
> sending buffered JavaEE responses to slow clients, which should increase
> throughput of the server significantly. Ideas?
>
> /i
>
> [1] http://kenai.com/projects/grizzly-sendfile/pages/Home
>
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