Patrick Kranz wrote:
> Hello Phil,
> 
> thanks for you response. If I understand these properties correctly,
> they set the time a connection will reside idle in the idle pool. What I
> mean is that a connection is created because all connections that were
> in the pool are in use. This new connection would be closed immediately
> if in the moment close() is called on this new connection, the pool
> already has maxIdle connections. What I am looking for is a timeout that
> says "I know this is one more idle connection than I configured but keep
> it around for just a few more seconds in case we have a second peak so
> we donĀ“t need to construct the connection again".
> 

Got it.  That feature is not currently available and as far as I
know has never been suggested.  You could open a JIRA requesting the
feature here:
http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/issue-tracking.html

Phil
> Cheers,
> Patrick
> 
> 
> 
> Am 23.02.2010 03:18, schrieb Phil Steitz:
>> Patrick Kranz wrote:
>>   
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> I've been playing around with the DBCP for quite some time now, because
>>> I want to get rid of Oracles Connection Pool. The only problem I still
>>> wasn't able to solve is the following:
>>>
>>> In my Oracle Pool a connection gets closed within the pool after some
>>> configurable amount of time. That means, if I have configured a maximum
>>> idle of 4 and a maximum active of 10, the six connections that are
>>> between these two limits are closed after for example 30 seconds. That
>>> way these connections stay open as long as my period of high load lasts,
>>> even if there are a few seconds without the need for more than 4
>>> connections.
>>>
>>> The DBCP seems to work differently meaning that with the same
>>> configuration every connection that is outside the maxIdle limit is
>>> closed the moment the connection is returned to the pool.
>>>
>>> Maybe my assumption is wrong but I think depending on the way the
>>> application is used, the way DBCP handles connections might result in a
>>> higher rate of constructing new connections.
>>>
>>> So, is there any way to achieve the "Oracle way" that I did not stumble
>>> into or was this simply never considered?
>>>
>>>      
>> See the minEvictableIdleTimeMillis property of BasicDataSource
>> and/or softMinEvictableIdleTimeMillis of GenericObjectPool if you
>> are managing the pool directly.  To use either of these properties,
>> you need to enable the idle object evictor by setting the
>> timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis property to a positive value.
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>   
>>> Cheers,
>>> Patrick
>>>
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