On 23 January 2012 06:49, Philippe Mouawad <philippe.moua...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding logging,
> It CAN Go fast if we share work and each of us takes one SRC folder.
> It's à matter f search replace for 90%.

It's still the same amount of work, no matter how many people do it.
[Possibly more, if you allow for co-ordination overheads]

Generally it's the last 10% that takes all the effort.

Definitely not something to be started just before a release.

Also, we would still need to keep the jars unless we rewrote
OldSaveService - or made it optional.

>
> Regarding pool i am not sure to  there is an datasourceelemnt That has à
> Maxpool property and looking at code it seemed the  excalibur datasource
> was using this property.
> Commons jdbc BasicDatasource was looking very close to it.
>
> Regards
> Philippe
> On Monday, January 23, 2012, Anthony Johnson <ans...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 9:28 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 23 January 2012 01:46, Anthony Johnson <ans...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:29 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22 January 2012 13:04, Philippe Mouawad <philippe.moua...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>>> > Hello,
>>>>> > I noticed there was some plan to remove Excalibur logger dependency.
>>>>> > What is the new selected component to replace it ?
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   - log4j
>>>>> >   - slf4J+logback
>>>>>
>>>>> Given that the main focus of JMeter is HTTP, and we use Apache
>>>>> HttpClient, if we do replace logging it will be sensible to use the
>>>>> same, i.e. Commons Logging.
>>>>>
>>>>> But it is a huge job to do this; every single file that uses logging
>>>>> will need to be updated.
>>>>>
>>>>> As well as changing all the documentation, config files etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > When do we plan this migration ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Not yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> > Working on 41788
>>>>> > <https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41788>I noticed
>>>>> > javadocs for excalibur where no more available on internet.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I suppose the same question will arise regarding DataBase Sampler
> pool.
>>>>> > What are the candidates:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   - Tomcat JDBC Pool :
>>>>> >   http://people.apache.org/~fhanik/jdbc-pool/jdbc-pool.html
>>>>> >   - Commons DBCP ?
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder whether there's really any point supporting database pooling
>>>>> at all, given that the focus of JMeter is on independent test threads.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> JMeter definitely needs persistent database connections which is
>>>> easily accomplished with database pooling.  JMeter loses usefulness if
>>>> it has to open a connection at sample time since this is a lot more
>>>> expensive than running optimized SQL.
>>>>
>>>> Also, some database features rely on persistent connections to be
>>>> optimized such as PreparedStatement caches.
>>>
>>> JMeter uses persistent connections; the connection is established by:
>>>
>>>
> http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#JDBC_Connection_Configuration
>>>
>>> This is a different matter from sharing connections between threads.
>>>
>>> The per-thread (non-shared) pool is currently implemented as a pool
>>> size of 1 per thread.
>>>
>>
>> The preferred way(per the sarcastic "why use pooling" in the docs:-)
>> is not very nice code-wise.  If I have a 1,000 thread test then I will
>> have a 1,000 excaliber thread pool objects in memory and 1,000
>> per-thread poolMap objects.  Getting rid of pooling in JMeter would
>> definitely make this code better.
>>
>> On the other hand, their are nice features from the pooling such as
>> connection testing, keep-alives and such.  Some of those would need to
>> be implemented if you guys decided to rip out pooling.
>>
>> Regardless, you responded to my only concern and I learned
>> something(despite having written several JDBC Test Plans in the
>> past:-/)
>>
>>>>> Adding pooling effectively means that JMeter is testing the pooling as
>>>>> well as the database.
>>>>>
>>>>> > I made some Load tests for an ECommerce site comparing the 2 pools
> and the
>>>>> > first one seems to be a little better performing (specially in
> exhaustion
>>>>> > cases)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > although Commons DBCP quality is great.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think database pooling is really necessary for JMeter, so the
>>>>> performance is not a big issue; tests that want to exercise a database
>>>>> should not be using pooling - or at least should not be using a
>>>>> pooling solution which is fixed by JMeter.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know whether it's possible to create a datasource which
>>>>> includes pooling, if so, then that is the way to go - i.e. support
>>>>> data sources (I don't think we do currently).
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > --
>>>>> > Cordialement.
>>>>> > Philippe Mouawad.
>>
>
> --
> Cordialement.
> Philippe Mouawad.

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