Re: Threads sometimes wait for unnecessary ~1s to access connections in pool for HttpClient 4.1.1

[bnijjhar <ba...@accenture.com>]

Hi Oleg
Thanks for analysing the logs. I never got to the bottom of why it sometimes
takes a while to read all the bytes back. It might be to do with the buffer
size setting? Anyway, I've decided to 'live' with it for now ..


bnijjhar wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I have implemented a global HttpClient with a ThreadSafeClientConnManager.
> The default max connections per route is set to 1. I also set up the URL
> to access to be on another machine.
> I then create and start 2 threads to call my HttpClient. The first one
> completes in a reasonable time; the second one takes a bit too long. When
> I analyse the context logs, I see that in the first thread, the time
> between the following two messages is very close:
> 
> 2011-06-29 14:37:56,981 Thread-1 DEBUG
> org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient  - Connection can be kept
> alive indefinitely
> 2011-06-29 14:37:56,981 Thread-1 DEBUG
> org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager  - Released
> connection is reusable.
> 
> However, I am consistently seeing a 1 second gap for the second thread
> (which was notified at 14:37:56.981 that a connection was now available,
> as expected) between these two messages:
> 
> 2011-06-29 14:37:56,997 Thread-2 DEBUG
> org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient  - Connection can be kept
> alive indefinitely
> 2011-06-29 14:37:58,169 Thread-2 DEBUG
> org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager  - Released
> connection is reusable.
> 
> I have tried adding lines such as EntityUtils.consume(entity) and
> inputstream.close() but they made no difference (it seems that connections
> are released anyway without them according to the debug above). 
> 
> Could anyone explain this gap? If the URL I connect to is on my local
> machine, it doesn't seem to occur ... Obviously, it does mean that my
> performance isn't what I'd like it to be (or feel confident in).
> 

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