[Design of Messaging on JBoss (Messaging/JBoss)] - Re: Speeding up the test suite
by timfox
But there is another issue with Hudson.
Since Hudson uses VMWare, and does not fully utilise the machines, it is:
a) Significantly slower than running the test suite on a dedicated machine
b) More seriously, because of the virtualization, any timing issues are brought to the front. Although it still runs a Java program "correctly" you will observer wild differences in thread scheduling and timing which is good for showing up race conditions but extremely bad for any tests that rely on timing to give correct results.
Unfortunately, for messaging, some tests do rely on timing. E.g. testing that the expiration of a message happens pretty much on time (also scheduled delivery etc).
Now, of course Java even without virtualization is not real time, and gc can happen anytime screwing the timing, but, in practice without virtualization if we add a small margin of error in our timing tests they give good results, this is not the case with virtualization in to play - the required margin of error because so large as to make the test pointless.
This may mean I will separate any timing sensitive tests into their own (small) testsuite and this will need to be run on a dedicated team.
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[Design of JBossCache] - Space versus time, e.g. JBCACHE-1157
by genman
JBCACHE-1157 changes the HashMap used in an UnversionedNode to a ConcurrentHashMap, which makes an empty node take about 1.3K to store, from about 150 bytes. To do this sort of change on 1.4 might affect people's runtime memory usage quite a bit. For 2.0, I don't know. A cache that has so much overhead sort of bothers me.
Perhaps with a "global" NavigableMap (backported from 1.6), you could store all the data in a single flat map, with the following techniques:
1. Node.put(k, v) -> NM.put(new Pair(Fqn, k), v)
2. Node.getMap() -> NM.getRange(new Pair(Fqn, FirstKey), new Pair(Fqn, LastKey));
The main downside is that all operations are of course slower, depending on how the Fqn is constructed. (A Fqn is much faster than Fqn).
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[Design of POJO Server] - Re: JBossAppParsingDeployer issue
by scott.stark@jboss.org
"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : "scott.stark(a)jboss.org" wrote : I don't see how allowing the structural parse to introduce deployment metadata has any affect on a programmatic deployment.
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| Because the structural deployer is not invoked if I tell it explicitly what the
| structure of the ear is. It is also not invoked if I add a META-INF/jboss-structure.xml
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Ok, that is the real problem but I'm ignoring why this has any impact on programmatic deployments other than that to properly provide the structure metadata for an ear without an application.xml, you would have to also provide the J2eeApplicationMetaData. It is too much to assume this will also be programmatic available, so if that is what your saying I agree.
I have created an EARContentsDeployer that is ordered after the AppParsingDeployer and runs on ears without META-INF/application.xml to produce the implicit J2eeApplicationMetaData. The jboss-app.xml only ear is being correctly processed with this deployer in the chain.
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