All kind of strange things start to happen once we hit 100-200 requests per 
second loads. If an instance gets overloaded, WOTaskD becomes unresponsive and 
Apache stalls after as well. Quickly killing the stalled instance brings WOTask 
and Apache back to live. Maybe setting Apache Adaptor to poll wotask at 10 
minute and not 10 second interval could fix that?


Michael Kondratov
Aspire Auctions, Inc.
216-231-5515

> On Sep 14, 2016, at 1:20 PM, Chuck Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am not sure how connection pooling, which happens in the Apace process, and 
> Keep-Alive interact.  I thought the former was for the ServerSocket, but I 
> could be very wrong.  I don’t know why you are seeing what you are seeing 
> below.
>  
> Chuck
>  
> From: Michael Kondratov <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 6:08 AM
> To: Chuck Hill <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Cc: WebObjects-Dev Mailing List List <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: Re: WOWorkerThreadCountMax
>  
> I have noticed that the number of worker threads immediately goes us when we 
> set connection pool to 1. If it is set to zero, worker threads stop at about 
> 70, but we see 50% system time CPU utilization. Once pooling is enables, CPU 
> utilization drops, but workers grow to the max setting.
>  
> Michael
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Sep 13, 2016, at 6:44 PM, Michael Kondratov <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> Chuck, 
> We are handling around 100 requests per second spread over 5-10 application 
> instances. We do have KeepAlive enabled in Apache. How would I manage that in 
> WO? If the application thread count grows to 300 threads or so, does it mean 
> that at one time we had a back log of ~250 requests or so?
>  
> Michael Kondratov
> Aspire Auctions, Inc.
> 216-231-5515
>  
> On Sep 13, 2016, at 6:40 PM, Chuck Hill <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>  
> There is no easy answer. 
>  
> Ignoring Keep-Alive, you need to manage this setting, the Listen Queue Size, 
> and number of instances to ensure that your app instances don’t build up a 
> backlog of requests that will take longer to process than your users are 
> willing to wait.  Otherwise, your instances are going to be calculating 
> responses that are just going to encounter a broken pipe when attempting to 
> respond to the client.  That is useless processing.  256 is way, way too high 
> unless you are processing a lot of very short, quick responses.  Relating 
> this to the number of Apache processes is pretty meaningless.  Apache is not 
> doing much relative to your app.
>  
> Request with Keep-Alive complicate this significantly as they tie up a worker 
> thread until the connection is closed.
>  
>  
> Chuck
>  
> From: <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> on 
> behalf of Michael Kondratov <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 3:33 PM
> To: WebObjects-Dev Mailing List List <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: WOWorkerThreadCountMax
>  
> Hello,
>      Does it make sense to set the value equal to or greater than the number 
> of active apache processes? Our server is receiving more traffic than usual 
> and each application is hitting the default limit of 256. I assume it is due 
> to each apache process trying to maintain a connection to each instance. We 
> typically see apache grow to 1000 processes.
>  
>  
> Michael Kondratov
> Aspire Auctions, Inc.
> 216-231-5515
>  
>  
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