Deadlock caused by ObservationDispatcher 
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                 Key: JCR-2746
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-2746
             Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: jackrabbit-core, observation
    Affects Versions: 2.1.1, 2.1.0, 2.0.0
            Reporter: Jukka Zitting
             Fix For: 2.2.0


The rate-limitation code we added in JCR-2402 to prevent the observation queue from growing too large was a good idea, but the current implementation is a bit troublesome since it blocks the thread while it still holds the journal lock, the SISM reader lock, and the SessionState lock. This can cause a deadlock under heavy workloads if any of the observation listeners attempts to reuse the session (not recommended/supported, but can still happen) or write to the repository (quite likely).

To solve this problem we should move the rate-limiter code to outside the scope of any internal locks.

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