On Nov 8, 2007 10:41 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have an architecture where we have many tomcat app servers load
> balanced by apache at the front.
>
> In resolving our current bottleneck i used JProfiler to see what the
> tomcat applications were doing and when under high load there are a lot of
> threads which are blocked on this:
>
> org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run()
>
> This suggests that they are spending all their time waiting for tomcat to
> run them, either way they're not runnable anyway.
>
> Our app pushes through huge quantites of very quick requests - typically
> each request takes a total of 50ms. We have a limit of 300 connections on
> our AJP connector.
>
> The point of blocked threads occurs way before we hit that limit. At the
> same time neither the machine is busy, nor are there any obvious problems
> with memory usage for the instance.
>
> And indeed; Adding more app servers keeps the load to each one down and
> does resolve the problem - i.e. we can increase throughput.
>
> So; My question is, is there a reccomended limit to how many threads
> tomcat can handle before it spends more time managing threads than it does
> doing real work?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
Not quite answering your question, but re your "blocked" threads, do
you mean something like the following in a stack dump?
"http80-Processor131" daemon prio=5 tid=0x00baa7c0 nid=0x10f9 in
Object.wait() [0xa5e81000..0xa5e819c8]
at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
- waiting on <0xc9d99d20> (a
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable)
at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:429)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:660)
- locked <0xc9d99d20> (a
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
FWIW, I always interpreted those as HTTP servicing threads waiting for
something to do (i.e. not a bad thing at all).
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