Re: Configuring number of parsers and buffer sizes

parser.pool.size

is this in 1.7?  i thought we trimmed a lot of the excess between 1.5
and 1.6, but if we can trim more, that'd be swell.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Christopher Schultz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've been looking at the docs for both Velocity Tools and Velocity
> itself and I can't seem to find out what the properties are for
> controlling the number of template parsers to create and how big their
> buffer sizes are.
>
> I've been doing some memory profiling of my webapp and it looks like
> Velocity is keeping some rather large (and empty -- probably because
> they haven't yet been used) buffers for parsing.
>
> I can see a bunch (76) of int[4096] arrays within VelocityCharStream
> (the class member is 'bufline'), and I can also see buried in
> VelocityCharStream which uses an InputStreamReader ('inputStream') a
> byte[8192] which appears to exist 48 separate times.
>
> So, the total "wasted" space due to these two arrays (duplicated a bunch
> of times) is, on the face of it, small: it's like 1-2MiB. On the other
> hand, if I don't need all that buffer space, I'd like to remove it.
>
> So, first: how can I configure the number of parsers and possibly the
> buffer sizes used by them?
>
> Second: is VelocityCharStream essentially double-buffering since the
> InputStreamReader seems to have a large buffer inside it and also
> VelocityCharStream has its own buffer?
>
> Thanks,
> -chris
>