On Jul 8, 2:26 pm, Antoni Batchelli <tbatche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also, in some instances with NIO you can even work directly > with kernel buffers, and so the network data doesn't even need > to be copied from the kernel space into the user space.
I assume that you are referring to NIO direct byte buffers. A threaded application can use direct byte buffers. I apologize for my sloppy terminology. When I wrote NIO, I was referring to the evented or async programming model. I didn't mean to imply that the threaded model cannot use NIO. > If the number of threads is not bound, a traffic spike will make > your memory requirements skyrocket, either exhausting the memory in > your JVM or prompting the OS to start paging on its VM. Yeah, a poorly constructed server can fall over with high load. The servers that I have worked with use bounded thread pools for this and other reasons. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
