Should ask Hibernate guys what to do? I think they use c3p0 as default. Any potential pooling issues if someone uses jbc as a second level cache for hibernate? > -----Original Message----- > From: jbosscache-dev-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org > [mailto:jbosscache-dev-bounces@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of > Manik Surtani > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:26 AM > To: jbosscache-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > Subject: [jbosscache-dev] Using Apache DBCP in > NonManagedConnectionFactory > > At the moment, when using the non-managed connection factory > in the JDBC cache loader, a new connection is created for > every operation and in high-concurrency environments this can > exhaust the db connections. > > Should we be using a pooling library like Apache's DBCP[1] > for this? > Probably increase efficiency a great deal. A user attempting > to improve throughput hacked in an open connection and stored > it in thread-local and saw some really big improvements[2]. > His hack is not a solution since it breaks when using > transactions, but highlights the need for a conn pool for > people who use this cache loader outside of an app server. > > [1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbcp/ > [2] http://www.jboss.com/index.html? > module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3977895#3977895 > > What do people think? > -- > Manik Surtani > > Lead, JBoss Cache > JBoss, a division of Red Hat > > Email: manik(a)jboss.org > Telephone: +44 7786 702 706 > MSN: manik(a)surtani.org > Yahoo/AIM/Skype: maniksurtani > > > _______________________________________________ > jbosscache-dev mailing list > jbosscache-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jbosscache-dev >