Thanks for the reply!

Yes I agree that synchronizing to the whole IoSession instance each time
for writing, is brutal. I am thinking on including a writing lock as a
session attribute in each session that will be initialized on
sessionCreated events.

Cheers!
Alex


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Jon V. <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would imagine this to be true. The normal use case is request and
> response. Additional synchronization makes the code run slower in that
> scenario. I would suggest synchronizing critical paths.
>
> I have to synchronize write paths for the same reason where one input may
> write to dozens of other sockets.
> On Nov 21, 2013 10:23 AM, "Alexandros Touloupis" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am using mina 2.0.8 since I needed a patch included in this release.
> >
> > I face the following problem:
> >
> > The concept of the application is to "multiplex" inbound to outbound
> > connections in MINA. This means that there might be 2 incoming
> connections
> > that are multiplexed in one outbound connection. During my tests i
> randomly
> > see this exception:
> >
> > java.nio.InvalidMarkException
> >         at java.nio.Buffer.reset(Buffer.java:298) ~[?:1.7.0_40]
> >         at
> >
> >
> org.apache.mina.core.buffer.AbstractIoBuffer.reset(AbstractIoBuffer.java:414)
> > ~[mina-core-2.0.8-PATCHED.jar:?]
> >         at
> >
> >
> org.apache.mina.core.polling.AbstractPollingIoProcessor.writeBuffer(AbstractPollingIoProcessor.java:926)
> > ~[mina-core-2.0.8-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
> >         at
> >
> >
> org.apache.mina.core.polling.AbstractPollingIoProcessor.flushNow(AbstractPollingIoProcessor.java:844)
> > [mina-core-2.0.8-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
> >         at
> >
> >
> org.apache.mina.core.polling.AbstractPollingIoProcessor.flush(AbstractPollingIoProcessor.java:772)
> > [mina-core-2.0.8-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
> >         at
> >
> >
> org.apache.mina.core.polling.AbstractPollingIoProcessor.access$700(AbstractPollingIoProcessor.java:67)
> > [mina-core-2.0.8-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
> >         at
> >
> >
> org.apache.mina.core.polling.AbstractPollingIoProcessor$Processor.run(AbstractPollingIoProcessor.java:1112)
> > [mina-core-2.0.8-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
> >         at
> >
> >
> org.apache.mina.util.NamePreservingRunnable.run(NamePreservingRunnable.java:64)
> > [mina-core-2.0.8-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
> >         at
> >
> >
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
> > [?:1.7.0_40]
> >         at
> >
> >
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
> > [?:1.7.0_40]
> >         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) [?:1.7.0_40]
> >
> > After some investigation i noticed that this happened when 2 threads
> > decided to write to the same IoSession a message the same time. My
> > assumption is that the #IoSession.write method is not thread safe, thus i
> > synchronized the session instance before executing the write method in my
> > handlers and up until now i haven't faced the same issue. Is my
> assumption
> > valid?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Alex
> >
>

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