[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HSEARCH-598) MassIndexer freezes when pool size is too low

[Emmanuel Bernard (JIRA)]

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Emmanuel Bernard commented on HSEARCH-598:
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I wonder if we could detect the starvation process and log warnings explaining the probable cause. I could imagine two cases, the first being the connection provider raising an exception, in his case all is good as the cause is well understood though we need doc), the second would be to have a timeout on the operation surrounding the connection gathering. 
It's just raw ideas at this point

> MassIndexer freezes when pool size is too low
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>
>                 Key: HSEARCH-598
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HSEARCH-598
>             Project: Hibernate Search
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: documentation, massindexer
>    Affects Versions: 3.2.1
>         Environment: Hibernate Core 3.5.4, PostgreSQL 8.4.4
>            Reporter: I D
>            Assignee: Sanne Grinovero
>             Fix For: 3.2.2, 3.3.0.Beta2
>
>
> In our application we use db connection pooling at the servlet container level - Jetty instantiates a com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource. We've disabled Hibernate's connection pooling to avoid multiple connection pools.
> Soon after starting to use MassIndexer we noticed that it SOMETIMES freezes during operation - startAndWait() just hangs indefinitely. After some experimentation, we realized that during this freeze the connection pool is maxed out and all the 15 connections (c3p0's default value for maxPoolSize is 15) are active.
> We therefore experimented with various values for maxPoolSize and found that 10 or less always seems to cause freezes, whereas 20 or more seems to work fine consistently. In between is a grey area, where the freeze occurs inconsistently (this grey area may of course extend to maxPoolSize<=10 and/or maxPoolSize>=20, since our tests only provide a partial statistical sample).
> If this is expected behavior, the minimal pool size / number of required connections should be well documented.

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