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Re: EJBException: Failed to acquire the pool semaphore
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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/stannous">Samuel Tannous</a> in <i>JBoss Messaging</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/731567#731567">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>This issue was caused by the <span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eef4f9;">maxSessions</span> size being larger than the MDB pool size.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>With this configuration, the broker was dispatching messages to 20 activeMQ sessions and the sessions were attempting to deliver those 20 messages to 15 listeners. Because our listeners performed long running tasks, sometimes those in the wait queue would timeout.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I could recreate this issue consistently with 20 messages, 20 sessions and 5 listeners that slept for 30 seconds. I would see 5 messages received by the listeners and then after 10 seconds, the other 15 messages would error with "Failed to acquire the pool semaphore". Setting <span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eef4f9;">maxSessions</span> to 5 resolves the issue as the broker will only attempt to deliver 5 messages at a time (remembering we also have prefetch set to 0).</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I hope this helps someone.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Sam</p></div>
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