I'm experiencing something weird and I just want to see if anyone else has experienced it, and if it may be something I'm doing. Basically my application is monitoring 700+ websites every 5 minutes and timing the time it takes to connect and download. The main goal is to verify the site is working, so I don't need exact precision on the times. Here's some of my code to time the download:
method = new GetMethod(uri.toString()); method.setFollowRedirects(true); method.setHttp11(false); DefaultMethodRetryHandler retry = new DefaultMethodRetryHandler(); retry.setRequestSentRetryEnabled(true); retry.setRetryCount(3); method.setMethodRetryHandler(retry); start = System.currentTimeMillis(); method.execute(state, connection); msi.setDuration(System.currentTimeMillis() - start); What I see is that normally I get download times 150ms and then occassionally (4-5 times a day) I see a download time of 3000ms. It happens to the majority of the websites, so I do not believe it's a particular site. So it must be either my application, or the network. My application uses a thread pool and always has multiple threads running (typically 8 at a time on a 4 CPU machine that's also running tomcat and Postgres), and I've seen that at exactly the same time a website has a 3000ms download time several others have normal 150ms times. So this seems to rule out the network. I set my threads to be all MAX_PRIORITY to minimize the interruptions. Are there any other explanations? Any ideas what I can do about it? My current thought is to put in some code to say if the download time is more than 10x the previous time then repeat the download to make sure. This way our customers wouldn't see the huge spike in the numbers, but at the same time if that spike really should be there I don't want to cover it up. Thanks, Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
