Hi Matt,

thank you for suggestions. I'm using mongo async driver, which is 
non-blocking and accept callback, when results are available. In the 
callback I write results to the output stream and complete acync context.

So  in theaory no blocking should happen

Cheerz, Ts.

On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 2:59:13 AM UTC+2, Matt Edge wrote:
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> You alluded to needing to debug further and my question would be if you 
> have any calls to external services that aren't wrapped in a Future 
> construct? (Blanking on the Java equivalent at the moment) I had a Scala 
> app using Dropwizard that had the same issue and it turned out to be my 
> calls to the backend data store blocking the thread. Wrapping that in a 
> Future allowed the thread pool to free up that thread while the data store 
> operation was being executed.
>
> The Servlet context may be held and executed by a separate thread but if 
> an operation within that thread blocks I believe it will still hamper your 
> server's ability to handle more requests.
>
> Hope this helps at least your debugging efforts :)
>
> On Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 4:19:05 AM UTC-4, Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> while load testing of my server with jmeter(100 threads, ramp-up period 
>> 0) I'll get 1% failures with connections timeouts. I set 20000 millis for 
>> connection 60000 millis for response. More than enough to process a simple 
>> request. It looks like, if all threads are busy then dropwizard stops 
>> accepting new connections. 
>>
>> However, all servlets use async context and all processing is done in 
>> non-blocking manner. So large number of connections could be accepted by 
>> the server. I'm still debugging to be sure that no blocking calls happen in 
>> application code. But my question is, what is recommended config for async, 
>> non-blocking servlets? Shall I explicitly enable non-blocking mode?
>>
>> I'm using dropwizard 0.9.2 with the following config
>>
>> server:
>>   gzip:
>>     bufferSize: 8KiB
>>   minThreads: 32
>>   applicationConnectors:
>>     - type: http
>>       port: 80
>>       acceptorThreads: 2
>>       selectorThreads: 4
>>       outputBufferSize: 8KiB
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>>

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