Re: Connection pooling

On 10/31/2013 3:24 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 10/31/2013 1:09 PM, andy wrote:
>> I'm not sure if geoserver is like openLayers/mapserver, but in the
>> later case (which I use), you can set it up to have the browser
>> (running openLayers) request multiple layers at the same time... and
>> on top of that each layer can be requested in tiles.  (That way when
>> you drag the map it only has to load new tiles, and not the entire
>> image, which makes the animations smooth)
>>
>> Anyway, one webclient * 5 layers * tiles = lot and lots and lots of
>> web requests (which, would make lots of db hits).
>
> sure, but those hits shouldn't each be using a new connection, no more
> than 2-4 of them should be processed concurrently following http 1.1
> guidelines, so no more than 2-4 connections should be required.
>
> the behavior the OP descibed sounded like the tomcat applets aren't
> closing their connections, thats broken behavior.
>
>
>

Ah, yes, you're right.  Lots and lots of requests, but not all of them
concurrently.

-Andy