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From: Rob Davies <rajdavies@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Thread Model, and Simultaneous Connections Scalability
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:33:54 +0100
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On 12 Apr 2008, at 02:18, mqperson wrote:

>
> In the web server world, most web servers fire off a new thread to  
> process a
> request, but a few, such as Jetty, for scalability, separate the  
> couple of
> requests and threads.
>
> I need to know what does ActiveMQ do in this regard?  If a consumer is
> connected listening on a queue, does it have a dedicated thread?  If  
> so,
> that seems like there would be something like one thread per  
> subscriber.
> Which would limit the number of simultaneous subscribers to perhaps  
> a few
> hundreds.
>
> On the other hand, if ActiveMQ has a modest number of threads  
> servicing a
> LARGE number of open network connections (sockets / file  
> descriptors) --
> then it could easily scale to thousands of simultaneous subscribers  
> if not
> more.
>
> I feel like the nature of ActiveMQ would imply the latter.  However,  
> my
> brief search of ActiveMQ documentation did not yield a confirmation.
>
> Could somebody please enlighten me or point me to a document?   
> Thanks in
> advance.
> -- 
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>

There's a a good article here: http://open.iona.com/wiki/display/ProdInfo/Understanding+the+Threads+Allocated+in+ActiveMQ

The number of threads is dependent on the default blocking i/o mode of  
the message broker - one thread per socket (equivalent to one per  
connection).
the use of nio is an option - and performs very well too. The choice  
you make is often down to the usage scenario and environment


cheers,

Rob

http://open.iona.com/ -Enterprise Open Integration
http://rajdavies.blogspot.com/