RE: [Webware-discuss] Sharing servlets between threads

[Geoffrey T. <gta...@na...>]

Pawel J Maczewski wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:18:03AM -0500, Geoffrey Talvola wrote:
>> 
>> The catch is that servlet instances are never deleted. Instead they
>> are kept in a pool and reused for future requests.  A servlet
>> instance may be used in thread A and then _later_ used in thread B,
>> but it will never be used in Threads A and B at the same time.
>> 
> 
> Hi,
>  Now I have a question. If I would have 2 servlet instances,
> created when 2 requests at the same time, and, as you say, the servlet
> instances are never deleted, does it mean that theese 2
> insances would be in
> the memory 4ever (until I restart the Webware)? Even if there
> were no more
> simultaneous requests? Is there some way to delete the
> instance that haven't
> been used for some time?

Yes, the instances stay in memory forever, and no, I'm not aware of an easy
way to delete them.  But I wouldn't worry about it.  The amount of memory
taken up by a servlet instance is ordinarily very small.

- Geoff