On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It's safe... the adds will block until the commit or optimize has finished. >> > > By block, do you mean that the update connection(s) will be held open?
HTTP calls are synchronous, so yes it will hold a connection open (unless the container is configured to time out responses after a while). > Our > optimizes take many minutes to complete. I'm thinking that this could cause > a large pile of threads to accumulate if we're not careful... Many HTTP clients block at a certain number of open connections to the same server, acting as a natural throttling mechanism. -Yonik
