Thursday, May 15, 2008

Servicemix PollingComponentSupport - stuck if lower period and higher threadPoolSize

Again i got one issue with servicemix Poller components.

We have two FilePoller components here and we kept the period to 10 minutes. Which means the instance of FilePoller will run at every 10 minutes. Now say if I have two instances, each run at 10 minutes, and 5 minutes gap between them. So it means after every five minutes, files will be picked by one of them. And the WorkManager, which is given to FilePoller as property, has threadPoolSize of 30.

All was working fine with this configuration.30 threads in pool, every five minutes any of two pullers will pick files. But now we have to change it. When we changed the period from 10 minutes to 1 minute, we got strange errors. Yes even you won't believe it. While testing concurrency we got, FileNotFound exception even though the file exists there, and many other concurrency issues. We looked into the logs and found that sometimes the load goes only on one server and the other is always idle doing nothing. Because when it comes, the first one is doing task.

Full article @ javalibs

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