the bit about todo manager sleeping a bit when the queue was full (and the 
queue being fixed length) was to prevent a jabbering or malicious client from 
consuming too many resources. have you preserved that quality?

On Mar 4, 2013, at 5:21 AM, paul turner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Scott,
> 
> I know how to fix it and I'll add a unit test to make sure the executing
> thread is not the calling thread while I am doing it.
> 
> best regards
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Paul Turner (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>     [
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ETCH-258?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel]
>> 
>> Paul Turner reopened ETCH-258:
>> ------------------------------
>> 
>> 
>> Use of the CallerRunsPolicy in TodoManager in patch will mean that the
>> caller thread will execute the PoolRunnable.  Scott mentioned that this
>> will cause problems due to possible deadlocking.
>> 
>> Reopened while I create a new RejectedExecutionHandler that will sleep
>> when work queue is full as in original implementation .
>> 
>>> Switch to using util.concurrent instead of pre Java 5 threading
>> constructs
>>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>>                Key: ETCH-258
>>>                URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ETCH-258
>>>            Project: Etch
>>>         Issue Type: Improvement
>>>         Components: binding-java, general
>>>           Reporter: Paul Turner
>>>           Priority: Minor
>>>            Fix For: 1.4
>>> 
>>>        Attachments: etch-20130301.patch
>>> 
>>>  Original Estimate: 168h
>>> Remaining Estimate: 168h
>>> 
>>> thread creation is quite expensive and so a new thread per unit of work
>> is also expensive, i propose to use util.concurrent threadpools in the java
>> binding sub-project and enhance unit tests e.g. with countdown latches to
>> ensure competing test threads start simeltanously and semaphore to throttle
>> access to running units of work.
>>> affects FreePool, TodoManager and associated tests and possibly more
>> classes
>> 
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