Hi Phil,
+1 for me!
Simo

Simo

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On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I notice now that in the doco cleanup before pool 1.5, we left one more
> inscrutable "feature" of GKOP undocumented, namely the behavior determined
> by the clearOldest method added in pool 1.3.   This (non-optional) feature
> destroys 15% of the "oldest" idle instances in the union of the pools to
> "make room" when a borrowObject attempt bumps up against maxTotal and there
> are idle instances (with other keys) that could be sacrificed.  This
> behavior makes sense for the DBCP use case (prepared statement pools), but
> may not always be desirable.  I think it should be configurable (whether or
> not to do it and possibly the trimming %) and documented.   The 1.5 changes
> to take factory methods out of synch blocks also increase the activation
> rate of clearOldest, since the internal processing count is included in the
> guard.  It might actually be better to eliminate that from a performance
> perspective (i.e. only activate when _totalActive + _totalIdle >=
> _maxTotal).
>
> This feature was implemented in POOL-49.  Prior versions just invoked
> clear() to eliminate all idle instances when maxTotal was attained.
>
> Phil
>

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