This seems to be fixed by a newer version of the JRE, i.e.

java version "1.6.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b105)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0-b105, mixed mode)

So I think that you can avoid the tricky workaround. Thank you for
your time and attention.

Harold

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 12:50 -0700, Harold Lee wrote:
>> I've put together a simple HTTP server that resets the connection
>> after sending part of the response back to the client. I'm going to
>> try to recreate the bug (leaking sockets) by making many requests
>> against that server from a Linux box. I'll let you know what I find.
>>
>> Harold
>>
>
>
>
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 13:32 -0700, Harold Lee wrote:
>> >> Regarding this JDK bug:
>> >> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6403933
>> >>
>> >> I think we are experiencing this using HttpCore on Linux with Java
>> >> 1.6. We wind up leaking socket descriptors until the JVM process runs
>> >> out. We also wind up having to start a new reactor thread, which
>> >> creates a new Selector. The old reactor thread keeps running and the
>> >> thread dump shows it in sun.nio.ch.EPollArrayWrapper.epollWait as
>> >> reported by others in the bug report above.
>> >>
>> >
>
>
> Hi Harold
>
> Did you have any luck reproducing the problem?
>
> I put together a work-around for the bug that causes the epoll spin
> problem [1]. If you are interested in trying it out I will happily share
> it with you. The work-around is pretty ugly, so I want to be sure there
> is no other way of solving the issue.
>
> cheers
>
> Oleg
>
> [1] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6403933
>
>> > Folks
>> >
>> > Anyone experienced anything like that? The looks pretty old, but there
>> > has been no reports of similar problems with HttpCore NIO. I am using
>> > Linux / JDK 1.6 on a daily basis when hacking on HttpCore but I have not
>> > encountered such a problem yet.
>> >
>> >
>> >> Here's the change that the Glassfish team made to work around this JDK 
>> >> bug:
>> >>
>> >> http://fisheye5.cenqua.com/browse/glassfish/appserv-http-engine/src/java/com/sun/enterprise/web/connector/grizzly/ByteBufferInputStream.java?r1=1.8&r2=1.9
>> >>
>> >> From my reading, the Glassfish code is much simpler than the HttpCore
>> >> NIO code: they're registering interest for just 1 socket and using
>> >> Selector.select() to wait for data from that socket. For HttpCore NIO,
>> >> it isn't yet clear to me how we can detect which selector is "trashed"
>> >> in order to cancel it and recreate it.
>> >>
>> >> I'm working on a workaround in AbstractMultiworkerIOReactor.java. If
>> >> selector.select returns 0 (setting readyCount to 0) then we don't know
>> >> whether this bug hit us or we just had a timeout.
>> >
>> > The problem is that it is perfectly valid for a selector to return 0
>> > ready count. This condition alone is not sufficient to assume the
>> > selector is trashed.
>> >
>> >
>> >>  To be safe, I think
>> >> we need to close every registered SelectorKey and then call
>> >> selector.selectNow() to flush them. Then we can create a new
>> >> SelectorKey for each and reregister them. The only way to make it less
>> >> common, I think, is to use a long selectTimeout value so that the odds
>> >> of a timeout are low. Ugly, but I hope it will work.
>> >>
>> >
>> > This will unfortunately screw up handling of new / closed channels as
>> > well timeout logic.
>> >
>> > The work-around looks butt ugly and would require tons of fairly complex
>> > code. Is there a way to reproduce the issue with a test scenario, so we
>> > could look for alternative approaches?
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > Oleg
>> >
>> >
>>
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