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DonalEvans opened a new pull request #5832:
URL: https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/5832
- Update certain tests to explicitly set conserve-sockets=true to allow
them to pass with the new default
- Update docs to reflect new default
Authored-by: Donal Evans <doev...@vmware.com>
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> Change the default value of conserve-sockets to false
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: GEODE-8778
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-8778
> Project: Geode
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 1.14.0
> Reporter: Donal Evans
> Priority: Major
>
> See also the dev list discussion on this subject.
> First, from the docs[1], a brief explanation of the purpose of the
> conserve-sockets property:
>
> "The conserve-sockets setting indicates whether application threads share
> sockets with other threads or use their own sockets for member communication.
> This setting has no effect on communication between a server and its clients,
> but it does control the server’s communication with its peers or a gateway
> sender’s communication with a gateway receiver."
>
> The current default value for the conserve-sockets property is true, which
> at first glance makes sense, since in an ideal world, existing sockets could
> be shared between threads and there would be no need to create and destroy
> new sockets for each process, which can be somewhat resource-intensive.
> However, in practice, there are several known issues with using the default
> setting of true. From the docs[1]:
>
> "For distributed regions, the put operation, and destroy and invalidate for
> regions and entries, can all be optimized with conserve-sockets set to false.
> For partitioned regions, setting conserve-sockets to false can improve
> general throughput.
> Note: When you have transactions operating on EMPTY, NORMAL or PARTITION
> regions, make sure that conserve-sockets is set to false to avoid distributed
> deadlocks."
>
> and[2]:
>
> "WAN deployments increase the messaging demands on a Geode system. To avoid
> hangs related to WAN messaging, always set `conserve-sockets=false` for Geode
> members that participate in a WAN deployment."
>
> Given that it is generally accepted as best practice to set conserve-sockets
> to false for almost all use cases of Geode beyond the most simple, it would
> make sense to also change the default value to false, to prevent people
> having to encounter a problem, search for the solution, then change the
> setting to what is almost always the "correct" value.
>
> [1]
> [https://geode.apache.org/docs/guide/113/managing/monitor_tune/performance_controls_controlling_socket_use.html|http://example.com/]
> [2]
> [https://geode.apache.org/docs/guide/113/managing/monitor_tune/sockets_and_gateways.html]
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