-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Vance,
On 5/18/12 12:14 PM, Vance - wrote: > I'm maintaining a Web application for searching multiple wikis, > this app runs under Tomcat 6. I need to modify a servlet so it > instantiates a 'Thread' subclass to perform a wiki availability > check every so often, say every 30 minutes. Suggestion: use a ServletContextListener, not a Servlet. Remember to terminate the thread in the destroy() method. Note that terminating a thread basically requires that you be able to communicate with the thread to tell it to shut down (i.e. don't call Thread.stop()): you need to have a Runnable that can be interrupted (using interrupt()) and also knows that the interrupt needs to be terminal... so set a "shutdown" flag or something like that. > Given that I'm no expert on the use of threads, a co-worker > suggested the following questions to look into: > > · Does the spawned thread have a time limit imposed by > Tomcat? No. > · Does it take up worker thread space from other Tomcat > threads? No. Your thread will take up RAM and CPU time of course. Also, processes have thread limits and your thread will count against that. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+2dsYACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBT8ACgnUwG5KjDzTf9SYHtEM9iaYxJ dy8An1vGhmAjMhzgpvfXGVNMkDlQTPzA =nH91 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
