[jetty-discuss] About BoundedThreadPool.dispatch implementation

[Aleksi K. <ale...@cs...>]

Hello,

We have been experiencing problems with Jetty (version 6.1.1), where 
high traffic hangs to whole server. The exact cause is dispatch method 
in BoundedThreadPool returning false, and making the socket connector to 
close itself. The server is left running, but with no server sockets 
listening to requests.

I see that the implementation of dispatch method has changed a lot in 
the newer versions. Has it been changed to improve stability?

Of course testing will reveal if updating from 6.1.1 to 6.1.12 will 
resolve the issue, but as it is quite laborous to reproduce and not very 
repeatable, it would be nice to know a bit more about what has happened 
at the code level.

Cheers,
Aleksi