That's indeed interesting. In parallel of the code above blocking on decoding a FileInputStream, I concurrent threads invoking BitmapFactory.decodeStream() with an InputStream from a HttpGet executed by a slightlly modified AndroidHttpClient (to use httpclient/httpcore 4.1).
I'm using a single HttpClient instance for the lifetime of my app, as recommended by Apache. It is quite inefficient to create a HttpClient per request as a HttpClient creates a thread pool and it is designed to handle several concurrent connections is a thread safe way (if using a ThreadSafeClientConnManager that is). Now it really looks like a deadlock in nativeDecodeStream() but if that's the case it is a bug. I will try to create a HttpClient per request to see if it fixes the problem. On Aug 23, 1:25 am, Rich <aguynamedr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey...I had a similar issue that I just fixed today, and this information > might help. > > I had code I was using all over the place that would be downloading data and > images with a single HttpClient and everything was fine. When I moved this > code over to a project that was downloading a bunch of images in a row, > sometimes it would hit a point where it would block almost exactly as you're > describing. I did a ton of troubleshooting with my HttpClient instance, the > HttpParams, moving from AsyncTask to a single background thread running in > serial, etc. > > I took a step back and started using a single AndroidHttpClient per-request > and closing it after I was done downloading the stream and decoding the > bitmap. No more blocking. The issue is that the HttpClient will clean > itself up, but sometimes not in time and the next request would come in and > cause a deadlock. > > If you're not explicitly cleaning up the HttpClient > (AndroidHttpClient.close), give it a try. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
