I gonna give you some piece of code in a separate email. But you have to read 
the documentation a little bit.

Philippe

On 5 avr. 2011, at 03:19, Kevin Hinkson wrote:

> 
> On 2011-04-04, at 9:13 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
> 
>> given that this is a service call from a cron job, there's really no reason 
>> to use a long response page (the cronjob probably doesn't care about the 
>> response ... it's just kicking it off) ... just throw a runnable into an 
>> ExecutorService thread pool, make a new eof stack, and go.
> 
> I'm not familiar with ExecutorService but a quick Google search shows it as 
> an interface to split off and manage asynchronous threads?
> 
>> 
>> ms
>> 
>> On Apr 4, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Kevin Hinkson wrote:
>> 
>>> Thank you so much for your time guys. I'm digging into the LongRequest 
>>> example to see how I can implement WOLongResponsePage.
>>> 
>>> On 2011-04-04, at 8:53 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 4, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Kevin Hinkson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> I am a bit puzzled about how WO handles concurrent requests.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a request that can run for a very long time, let's say 30 minutes.
>>>> 
>>>> That sounds more like a periodic task than a real request.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> After looking around at other posts, the options for allowing this to run 
>>>>> without the adaptor and apache complaining after a minute or so are:
>>>>> 
>>>>> * implement WOLongResponsePage
>>>>> * Adjust the adaptor timeout settings
>>>>> * make it run faster
>>>> 
>>>> * Do what Mike said.  Which in this case is The Right Answer.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Since I could not make the data crunching any faster and I'm lazy, I 
>>>>> opted to adjust the adaptor timeout settings. This worked fine I thought. 
>>>> 
>>>> That is not doing yourself any favors.  That is just going to hide the 
>>>> problem with your app gets overloaded and seriously annoy your users.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> I am also running my app with the argument 
>>>>> -WOAllowsConcurrentRequestHandling=YES (among others settings) which I 
>>>>> thought would mean that one instance can handle multiple incoming 
>>>>> requests.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, but it does not make EOF multi-threaded.  If your long request was 
>>>> sending email instead of doing database access, then things would be 
>>>> different.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> But that does not seem to be the case. My app is running with one local 
>>>>> instance that should allow concurrent request handling but that one 
>>>>> request (the long running one) blocks, preventing others from running 
>>>>> (they just timeout). My solution has been to just add another instance 
>>>>> and then schedule them to restart 12 hours apart.
>>>> 
>>>> The preference is to run more than a single instance for load balancing, 
>>>> fault tolerance, and scheduling.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> So, my questions.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. Is changing the adaptor timeout setting the best option or is 
>>>>> WOLongResponse inherently better in some way?
>>>> 
>>>> See above.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 2. What does WOAllowsConcurrentRequestHandling do or not do? Did I 
>>>>> misunderstand this argument?
>>>> 
>>>> It affects how HTTP requests are dispatched.  It does not prevent 
>>>> bottlenecks downstream in your code.
>>>> 
>>>>> 3. Why do we have to schedule restarts of instances? I suspect it has to 
>>>>> do with memory usage but I've never seen a clear answer on this.
>>>> 
>>>> The main reason is to allow the JVM to return memory to the OS.  It can 
>>>> also help to coverup bugs in your code.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 4. How many instances should I really be running per app? Maybe some 
>>>>> examples of how you guys handle deciding how many to run would be great.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I'd say a minimum of two and a maximum of how many are needed.  If two 
>>>> provides the response time you are looking for, then that is enough.  Too 
>>>> many wastes system resources.  It is a balancing act.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Chuck
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Chuck Hill             Senior Consultant / VP Development
>>>> 
>>>> Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall 
>>>> knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems.    
>>>> http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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