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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:47:24 -0700
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From: michael <michael@michaelmcgrady.com>
Subject: RE: Thread pool strategy
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At 09:23 AM 7/9/2004, you wrote:
>From: David Jencks [mailto:david@coredevelopers.net]
>Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:24 PM
>To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
>Subject: Thread pool strategy
>
>I've been working with the thread pools and PooledExecutor from
>concurrent a bit lately and understand how they work a little better
>than I used to:-)
>
>I've changed the ThreadPool implementation to:
>
>have a hard max size limit (and minSize == maxSize)
>have a Queue that all waiting tasks are put on.
>No task is ever executed in the calling thread.
>
>I think this is the most appropriate policy for all thread pools in
>geronimo.  I'd be interested in other opinions... I don't consider
>myself an expert in this.
>
>I'm not sure if the current implementation ever gets smaller, since the
>minsize == maxsize.  Having maxSize > minSize would involve writing a 
>LinkedQueue subclass that can communicate with the PooledExecutor to
>determine if the pool size < maxSize.  I'm reluctant to introduce this
>complication without evidence that it is needed.
>
>Many thanks
>david jencks

I would suggest asking Doug Lea about this.  He inexplicably seems to 
always have time to be helpful in this area, where he is the 
GooRoo.  http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/

I think this thread pool via PooledExecutor thing is the best thing since 
sliced bread.  I use it whenever it is possible on my sites and have a 
standard mechanism for running tasks through this sort of implementation 
whenever it makes any sense whatsoever.

I don't know enough about geronimo to be much help to you here, however.  I 
don't quite know how to get involved with the list.  That has been a 
standard problem with me and lists which I am trying to solve.

Michael