[jira] [Commented] (LUCENE-3803) Using a searcher with an executor service does not work from within a Callable called by that same executor service

["Uwe Schindler (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Uwe Schindler commented on LUCENE-3803:
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The problem is that you are using the same fixed thread pool for everything. If you only have 1 or 2 threads in the pool (as noted in your mail) and one of those threads calls searcher.search() from within its own callable, searcher.search will try to execute the sub-searches in its own callables. If the thread pool does not have enough free threads, it will wait for a thread to get available (because another callable finishes). The callable that called searcher.search will of course not finish as it waits for itsself to finish -> deadlock.

The bad idea with thread pools that leads to your problem is: Don't start Callables from within another Callable in the same thread pool. This almost always leads to deadlocks.
                
> Using a searcher with an executor service does not work from within a Callable called by that same executor service
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-3803
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3803
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: core/search
>    Affects Versions: 3.5
>            Reporter: Benson Margulies
>         Attachments: lucene-tc.tgz
>
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> The test case I'm about to attach creates an executor service uses invokeAll to run things from it. The 'things' (Callable) that it runs in turn run Lucene searchers using a searcher that has the very same executor service. This turns out to hit some sort of deadlock related to the executor service queue. 
> I won't be terribly surprised if this is really a matter of a fundamental limitation of the executor service, but if nothing else this JIRA might provoke a warning in the javadoc. Or, what do I know, maybe there's a way Lucene could interact with the executor service that gets along with this?

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