Thanks a ton Chris, i got my answer. Applause for giving your time. ;)
On Nov 6, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Vicky, > > On 11/5/12 5:12 AM, vicky007aggar...@yahoo.co.in wrote: >> Mark actually i have a scenario in which my application receives >> variable amount of request depending on time . So at one point i >> have an approx around 400 users concurrently accessing my >> application as a result i have an approx 400 threads but when the >> request count decreases the thread count still remains 400 which >> eventually eat up my system resources. > > If you have 400 threads running, your resources are already "eaten". > Does anything get worse over time? > > Honestly, if your system can't handle its peak load, then you need to > make other arrangements (such as load-balancing, or lowering the > thread pool size at the expense of average response time). > > In a default configuration, Tomcat should drop idle threads after 1 > minute of idle time per thread (so 60 seconds + some slop after a > thread handles its last request, the request-processing thread should > die). If that isn't happening, please post your configuration and your > observations (and be *very* specific, including your methodology for > counting live threads, the timestamps at which you applied the user > load and sampled the live threads, etc.). > >> To cater to this situation i would like to know the option by which >> i can close my unused threads as maxSparethreads doesnt exist >> anymore in tomcat 6.0 > > maxIdleTime > > But honestly, I don't think you'll need it unless the default of 1 > minute isn't appropriate for you. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlCYh18ACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBOMACeOiDOSJXpcA+0WCg4kABa07X1 > 6TcAn3OXp/NPUWAbWDRl5O0g0keQ4NWA > =WQTx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
