RE: Possible thread-safe issue with fonts
It'll do, I just load tested it overnight, no problems for 250,000 hits.
I'm running through cocoon, I don't want to be playing with cocoon's source
as well.
Chris.
-Original Message-
From: J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2002 6:44
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Possible thread-safe issue with fonts
Chris Warr wrote:
OK, it was a threading issue, I downloaded the source and had a play. It
comes about because the static configuration is updated for every
translation I do. FontSetup.addConfiguredFonts() can read from the font
list at the same time as ConfigurationParser.store() updates it. I just
put
a line in ConfigurationParser.endElement() to only add fonts if there are
none in the list. Was easier for me than mucking around with
'synchronized', I'm only a java beginner.
} else if (localName.equals(fonts)) {
--if (Configuration.getFonts() != null
Configuration.getFonts().size() != 0)
--{
--// Don't update the fonts
--}
--else
{
this.store(standard, fonts, fontList);
}
That's not a good idea.
If you have only one servlet and set the configuration
only once, do so in the servlet's init() method.
If you have several servlets, create a singleton class
wrapping the instantiation of the configuration,
roughly
final class ConfigSingleton {
private static Options options;
public final void synchronized init() {
if( options==null ) {
options=new Options(userconfig.xml);
}
}
(Beware! Untested!)
And call ConfigSingleton.init() in each of the servlet's
init method.
J.Pietschmann
RE: Possible thread-safe issue with fonts
I don't get that error, just the one 'unknown font dynamo...' Is this more appropriate for fop-dev? Chris. -Original Message- From: Keiron Liddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 26 April 2002 17:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Possible thread-safe issue with fonts It sounds like it is a threading problem. Do you get any messages like: Failed to read font metrics file ... It would appear that two threads could be reading the font metrics file at the same time. Accessing the file is done through the parser so we don't know what it is actually doing and it depends on the parser. I think each time it is a new data set in memory so it probably is not that. On 2002.04.26 08:17 Chris Warr wrote: Hi, I'm running cocoon 2.1dev under tomcat 4.04b2 with JDK 1.3 and FOP 0.20.3. My cocoon app is generating a PDF using FOP. I use and embed a font in my generated PDF file with the following in my userconfig file: font metrics-file=d:/fonts/font_dynamo.xml kerning=yes embed-file=d:/fonts/dynamo.pfb font-triplet name=dynamo style=normal weight=normal/ font-triplet name=dynamo style=normal weight=bold/ /font This all works fine and dandy under normal usage, I get the dynamo font embedded in my PDF and all is well. However if I run a load test (20 concurrent processes) on the same app. I get the following error appear in my tomcat log files: 2002-04-26 15:25:20 ERROR (2002-04-26) 15:25.20:375 [fop ] (/cocoon/invoice.pdf) HttpProcessor[80][11]/MessageHandler: unknown font dynamo,normal,normal so defaulted font to any Not for every hit, but for some. So I'm guessing that there is some sort of problem with resource sharing. That is, could FOP not be thread safe as far as accessing this file? Or if the file is loaded into memory once, could there be multi-threading issues with reading from wherever it is stored in memory? Anyone got any ideas? Chris.
Re: Possible thread-safe issue with fonts
It sounds like it is a threading problem. Do you get any messages like: Failed to read font metrics file ... It would appear that two threads could be reading the font metrics file at the same time. Accessing the file is done through the parser so we don't know what it is actually doing and it depends on the parser. I think each time it is a new data set in memory so it probably is not that. On 2002.04.26 08:17 Chris Warr wrote: Hi, I'm running cocoon 2.1dev under tomcat 4.04b2 with JDK 1.3 and FOP 0.20.3. My cocoon app is generating a PDF using FOP. I use and embed a font in my generated PDF file with the following in my userconfig file: font metrics-file=d:/fonts/font_dynamo.xml kerning=yes embed-file=d:/fonts/dynamo.pfb font-triplet name=dynamo style=normal weight=normal/ font-triplet name=dynamo style=normal weight=bold/ /font This all works fine and dandy under normal usage, I get the dynamo font embedded in my PDF and all is well. However if I run a load test (20 concurrent processes) on the same app. I get the following error appear in my tomcat log files: 2002-04-26 15:25:20 ERROR (2002-04-26) 15:25.20:375 [fop ] (/cocoon/invoice.pdf) HttpProcessor[80][11]/MessageHandler: unknown font dynamo,normal,normal so defaulted font to any Not for every hit, but for some. So I'm guessing that there is some sort of problem with resource sharing. That is, could FOP not be thread safe as far as accessing this file? Or if the file is loaded into memory once, could there be multi-threading issues with reading from wherever it is stored in memory? Anyone got any ideas? Chris.
