Thread pool settings

Use this page to configure a group of threads that an application server uses. Requests are sent to the server through any of the HTTP transports. A thread pool enables components of the server to reuse threads to eliminate the need to create new threads at run time. Creating new threads expends time and resources.

To view this administrative console page, click Servers > Manage Application Servers > server_name > ORB Service > Thread Pool. (You can reach this page through more than one navigational route.)

Configuration tab

Minimum size
Specifies the minimum number of threads to allow in the pool.
Data type Integer
Default 10
Maximum size
Specifies the maximum number of threads to maintain in the default thread pool

If your Tivoli Performance Viewer shows the Percent Maxed metric to remain consistently in the double digits, consider increasing the Maximum size. The Percent Maxed metric indicates the amount of time that the configured threads are used.

Data type Integer
Default 50
Recommended 50 (25 on Linux systems)
Thread inactivity timeout
Specifies the number of milliseconds of inactivity that should elapse before a thread is reclaimed. A value of 0 indicates not to wait and a negative value (less than 0) means to wait forever.

Note: The administrative console does not allow you to set the inactivity timeout to a negative number. To do this you must modify the value directly in the server.xml file.

Data type Integer
Units Milliseconds
Default 3500
Is Growable
Specifies whether the number of threads can increase beyond the maximum size configured for the thread pool.

When a growable thread pool expands beyond the maximum size, the additional threads will not be reused and will be discarded from the pool after processing of the work items for which they were created is completed. When additional threads are created, a message is logged in the SYSOUT file to let you know that you went beyond the maximum size set for the thread pool.

Data type Boolean
Default Not enabled (false)
Range Valid values are Allow thread allocation beyond maximum thread size or Not enabled.

Related tasks
Tuning performance parameter index
Related reference
Administrative console buttons
Administrative console page features



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Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 8:07:48 PM CDT    WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, Version 5.0.2
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