[jbpm-commits] JBoss JBPM SVN: r6928 - in jbpm3/branches/jbpm-3.2-soa/userguide/src/main/docbook/en-US: extras and 1 other directory.
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Mon May 16 10:00:01 EDT 2011
Author: jcoleman at redhat.com
Date: 2011-05-16 10:00:01 -0400 (Mon, 16 May 2011)
New Revision: 6928
Modified:
jbpm3/branches/jbpm-3.2-soa/userguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/async.xml
jbpm3/branches/jbpm-3.2-soa/userguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/extras/configuration_1.xmlt
Log:
Update documentation to match job executor changes. Add a section describing
job executor configuration variables.
Modified: jbpm3/branches/jbpm-3.2-soa/userguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/async.xml
===================================================================
--- jbpm3/branches/jbpm-3.2-soa/userguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/async.xml 2011-05-16 13:58:11 UTC (rev 6927)
+++ jbpm3/branches/jbpm-3.2-soa/userguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/async.xml 2011-05-16 14:00:01 UTC (rev 6928)
@@ -186,26 +186,23 @@
executor must execute the jobs. This is done in two phases.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>A job executor thread must acquire a job</para>
+ <para>The dispatcher thread must acquire a job</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>The thread that acquired the job must execute it</para>
+ <para>An executor thread must execute the job</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
- <para>Acquiring a job and executing the job are done in 2 separate transactions. A thread
- acquires a job by putting its name into the owner field of the job. Each thread has a unique
- name based on IP address and sequence number. Hibernate's optimistic locking is enabled on
- <literal>Job</literal>-objects. So if 2 threads try to acquire a job concurrently, one of
- them will get a StaleObjectException and rollback. Only the first one will succeed. The
- thread that succeeds in acquiring a job is now responsible for executing it in a separate
- transaction.
+ <para>Acquiring a job and executing the job are done in 2 separate transactions. The
+ dispatcher thread acquires jobs from the database on behalf of all the executor threads
+ on this node. When the executor thread takes the job, it adds its name into the owner
+ field of the job. Each thread has a unique name based on IP address and sequence number.
</para>
<para>A thread could die between acquisition and execution of a job. To clean-up after
those situations, there is one lock-monitor thread per job executor that checks the lock times.
- The lock monitor thread will unlock any jobs that have been locked for more than 30 minutes,
+ The lock monitor thread will unlock any jobs that have been locked for more than 10 minutes,
so that they can be executed by another job executor thread.
</para>
@@ -230,6 +227,126 @@
<literal>READ_COMMITTED</literal> is not enough because it allows for Non-Repeatable reads to occur.
So <literal>REPEATABLE_READ</literal> is required if you configure more than one job executor thread.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ Configuration properties related to the job executor are:
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><property>jbpmConfiguration</property></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The bean from which configuration is retrieved.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><property>name</property></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The name of this executor.
+ </para>
+ <important>
+ <para>
+ This name should be unique for each node in a cluster.
+ </para>
+ </important>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><property>nbrOfThreads</property></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The number of executor threads that are started.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><property>idleInterval</property></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The interval that the dispatcher thread will wait before
+ checking the job queue, if there are no jobs pending.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ The dispatcher thread is automatically notifed when jobs
+ are added to the queue.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><property>retryInterval</property></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The interval that a job will wait between retries, if it
+ fails during execution.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ The maximum number of retries is configured by
+ <property>jbpm.job.retries</property>.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><property>maxIdleInterval</property></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum period for <property>idleInterval</property>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><property>historyMaxSize</property></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This property is deprecated, and has no affect.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><property>maxLockTime</property></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The macimum time that a job can be locked, before the
+ lock-monitor thread will unlock it.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><property>lockMonitorInterval</property></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The period for which the lock-monitor thread will sleep
+ between checking for locked jobs.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><property>lockBufferTime</property></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This property is deprecated, and has no affect.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
</section>
<section id="jbpmsbuiltinasynchronousmessaging">
Modified: jbpm3/branches/jbpm-3.2-soa/userguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/extras/configuration_1.xmlt
===================================================================
--- jbpm3/branches/jbpm-3.2-soa/userguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/extras/configuration_1.xmlt 2011-05-16 13:58:11 UTC (rev 6927)
+++ jbpm3/branches/jbpm-3.2-soa/userguide/src/main/docbook/en-US/extras/configuration_1.xmlt 2011-05-16 14:00:01 UTC (rev 6928)
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@
</field>
<field name='name'><string value='JbpmJobExecutor' /></field>
<field name='nbrOfThreads'><int value='1' /></field>
- <field name='idleInterval'><int value='5000' /></field>
+ <field name='idleInterval'><int value='60000' /></field>
+ <field name='retryInterval'><int value='4000' /></field>
<!-- 1 hour -->
<field name='maxIdleInterval'><int value='3600000' /></field>
<field name='historyMaxSize'><int value='20' /></field>
@@ -70,4 +71,4 @@
<!-- 5 seconds -->
<field name='lockBufferTime'><int value='5000' /></field>
</bean>
-</jbpm-configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
+</jbpm-configuration>
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