Thread pool configuration

[Avinash Lakshman]

Hi All

Does anyone any pointers to any literature which talks about what should be
the ideal amount of data to read from disk for maximizing I/O throughput?
Another naive way of posing this question is what should be the ideal buffer
size for reads for maximizing I/O throughput?

A

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at sun.com> wrote:

>
> A number of people have mailed me in the last few weeks with various
> questions on how thread pools are used by the asynchronous I/O
> implementation. I've started a page [1] with a few notes that may be useful.
>  When I get time I will update it with details as to how to interpret thread
> dumps on each operating system as that is important to diagnose problems
> (the thread dumps do vary by operating system due to the differences in the
> I/O facilities used).
>
> -Alan.
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/nio/resources/AsynchronousIo.html
>
>
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