possible NIO selector leak in 7u25

[David M. Lloyd]

On 7/4/13 1:53 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 04/07/2013 19:43, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>
>> XNIO uses Selectors (usually PollSelectorImpls) which are cached per
>> thread in order to mix blocking and non-blocking I/O.  If you are
>> starting many short-lived threads and doing blocking operations on
>> XNIO channels then this might explain what is happening.  The answer
>> is basically "don't do that".
>>
> When you say "usually PollSelectorImpls" then it normally run with it
> configured to use the poll based Selector?

Yeah it will prefer PollSelectorImpl for temporary selectors, but will 
ultimately fall back to whatever the default provider gives.

> BTW: Sean Coffey mailed me off-list so say that he tried the original
> support/customer test case that lead to 7118373 and confirms that it
> doesn't duplicate with 7u25.

Good to know, thanks.

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