[opencms-dev] OpenCms hangs up when it gets too many requests

Tobias Herrmann t.herrmann at alkacon.com
Mon Jan 21 13:10:52 CET 2013


Hi Yuta,

in OpenCms 7.5 there was an issue where OpenCms would run in a dead lock when running out of connections. We fixed that in version 8.0.

Greetings, Tobias

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Am 21.01.2013 12:29, schrieb Georgi Naplatanov:
> Hi Yuta.
>
> If I understand you correct, you want to limit load on server. If it's so, do it on the other side - web server.
>
> Best regards
> Georgi
>
> On 01/21/2013 12:38 PM, Yuta Aoki wrote:
>> Hi Georgi,
>>
>> Thank you for the answer. Well I'm aware of that option but when you
>> want to keep the max number of connections under certain limit, I
>> don't think 'grow' is the choice. The setting itself is not the
>> problem since it simply means that you want to block the exceeding
>> connections until OpenCms is less busy.
>>
>> The problem is that OpenCms stops working even after the connection
>> rush is over.
>>
>> Yuta
>>
>> 2013/1/21 Georgi Naplatanov<gosho at oles.biz>:
>>> Hi, the problem appears because of these parameters:
>>>
>>>
>>> db.pool.default.maxActive=25
>>> db.pool.default.whenExhaustedAction=block
>>>
>>> You have to set db.pool.default.maxActive high enough according to maximum
>>> number of simultaneous requests or/and set
>>> db.pool.default.whenExhaustedAction to "grow" (the default value for OpenCms
>>> 8.x)
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Georgi
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/21/2013 11:50 AM, Yuta Aoki wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> It seems like OpenCms (version 7.5.x) hangs up when it receives more
>>>> requests than the maxActive value. You'll get the error "Timeout
>>>> waiting for idle object "
>>>>
>>>> The tricky part is that sometimes, it will be working again after
>>>> waiting a bit. But sometimes it will stop working.
>>>>
>>>> [How to reproduce]
>>>>
>>>> 1. Set those values in opencms.properties.
>>>>
>>>> -------
>>>> db.pool.default.maxActive=25
>>>> db.pool.default.maxWait=2000
>>>> db.pool.default.minIdle=10
>>>> db.pool.default.maxIdle=20
>>>> db.pool.default.whenExhaustedAction=block
>>>> db.pool.default.testOnBorrow=true
>>>> db.pool.default.testWhileIdle=true
>>>> db.pool.default.timeBetweenEvictionRuns=3600000
>>>> db.pool.default.numTestsPerEvictionRun=3
>>>> db.pool.default.minEvictableIdleTime=1800000
>>>> db.pool.default.testQuery=SELECT STRUCTURE_ID FROM
>>>> CMS_OFFLINE_STRUCTURE WHERE RESOURCE_PATH \= '/'
>>>> db.pool.default.connects=10
>>>> db.pool.default.wait=5000
>>>>
>>>> db.statements.default.pooling=true
>>>> db.statements.default.maxActive=200
>>>> db.statements.default.maxWait=2000
>>>> db.statements.default.maxIdle=100
>>>> db.statements.default.whenExhaustedAction=block
>>>> --------
>>>>
>>>> 2. Send more than 25 simultaneous requests to the server.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I believe you can set some value to
>>>> "db.pool.default.whenExhaustedAction=block" so that OpenCms increases
>>>> the max amount when it gets more request, but it wouldn't be the ideal
>>>> solution when you actually want to limit the max connections.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to solve this? Is it fixed in version 8.5?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Yuta Aoki
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