Thanks.
If I set fork-join-executor.parallelism-max to some reasonable value, the
dispatcher will not allocate more threads even when entering blocking
sections, right?
Cheers,
Rüdiger
On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 11:53:59 AM UTC+1, rkuhn wrote:
>
> The problem with this approach is that it opens up that dispatcher to use
> unbounded resources—unless you know that the number of concurrent
> blocking{} calls is bounded sensibly in your program.
>
> Other than that it should work as a band-aid.
>
> An alternative might be to use the akka.actor.deployment section to place
> the actors in question on their own “blocking” dispatcher.
>
> Regards,
>
> Roland
>
> 3 feb 2016 kl. 11:42 skrev rklaehn <[email protected] <javascript:>>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> quick question: when I do a blocking call from inside an akka actor,
> should I wrap it with scala.concurrent.blocking { ... } ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rüdiger
>
> p.s. I am well aware that this is something you should avoid if at all
> possible, and do on a dedicated dispatcher if you can't avoid this. But
> sometimes you have an existing code base that does not follow best
> practices, and you have to quickly improve things and don't have time for a
> major redesign.
>
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