Re: 2.0.6 released

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Sami Tikka wrote:

> figure out if the "other daemon" caused this disk access. But to be safe, 
> this means I always need to have free threads waiting in dazukoGetAccess_TS() 
> (and how exactly do you make sure you have enough free threads? :)
>

Well you ensure there are free threads by keeping track of which threads 
are busy and which are idle.  You can define idle as a thread that is 
sitting blockd inside dazukoGetAccess_TS().  Busy can be defined as a 
thread that has a dazuko access and is in the process of servicing it.

Anyway, if idle ever hits zero, create a new thread.  This way, there are 
never 0 idle threads for long.  Each new access that is being serviced has 
the potential for generating a new thread to service a future access. 
This way the system can never hang..

Oh.. and you need to check the idle and busy count on thread creation 
and/or when threads transition to new states.

That's my approach.. there probably are others...

-Calin