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When does JBoss shrink a connection pool?
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/theglauber">Glauber Ribeiro</a> in <i>Datasource Configuration</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/569900#569900">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>I'm using JBoss 4.3</p><p>Say i have a data source defined like this:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow-y: hidden; left: -10000px; overflow-x: hidden; width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 1px;">     <min-pool-size>5</min-pool-size></div><div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow-y: hidden; left: -10000px; overflow-x: hidden; width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 1px;">     <max-pool-size>25</max-pool-size></div><div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow-y: hidden; left: -10000px; overflow-x: hidden; width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 1px;">     <validate-on-match>false</validate-on-match></div><div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow-y: hidden; left: -10000px; overflow-x: hidden; width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 1px;">     <background-validation>true</background-validation></div><div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow-y: hidden; left: -10000px; overflow-x: hidden; width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 1px;">     <idle-timeout-minutes>5</idle-timeout-minutes></div><div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow-y: hidden; left: -10000px; overflow-x: hidden; width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 1px;">     <background-validation-minutes>1</background-validation-minutes></div><div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow-y: hidden; left: -10000px; overflow-x: hidden; width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 1px;">  <prefill>true</prefill></div><div> </div><p>    <min-pool-size>5</min-pool-size></p><p>    <max-pool-size>25</max-pool-size></p><p>    <prefill>true</prefill></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I see JBoss grab 5 connections when it starts, and grow to 25 as needed. But i'm not seeing it reliably shrink down back to 5. Is it supposed to? What triggers the shrinkage?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>glauber</p></div>
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