[Seaside] Are Collections threadsafe?
Malte Zacharias
malte.zacharias at nordakademie.de
Tue Feb 26 02:05:52 UTC 2008
Thanks to all of you for the numerous replies, I have read a fair bit of
the referenced discussion and certainly hope it will be a non-issue for
me, I kind of expected the one major mechanism for process
synchronisation to "just work", just as the mayority of people I
suppose. Strange thing is, that immediately after starting to work with
Mutex and Delays my image got wrecked.. Wrecked as in UI unbearable
slow, mouse clicks only got noticed after lots of time, etc.. Mind you
the seaside application did not show those effects. and the Process
browser only showed that the UI process consumed an awful lot of time..
I hope not to experience the same with the actual image running the
server. (fortunately the Data is also stored externally now, thanks to
Ramon Leons description of a simple ReferenceStream based Persistence)
Sad that I can't be certain whether it was just a strange coincidence..
> So saying that these things are "broken" is an overstatement. :) Sure,
> we have discovered some issues - but we are talking things that have
> gone undetected a loooong time.
Well, concurrency tends to alway shoots you in the back when you expect
it the least.. And how many people would have done like I did; thinking
Image's broken, let's use a fresh one. Sad, loosing all the
customizations though..
> IMHO - while you can learn something from digging into these discussions
> and patches, you could also just move along and use a Monitor (or
> Semaphore - but a Monitor is probably "smarter") and be done with it.
Just FYI I am using Mutexes right now. I wasn't expecting lots of
problems anyway, we only have very few concurrent user (averaged to
below 1 I'd guess..) with the occasional spikes, so it's more a better
safe than sorry approach.
Big thanks,
Malte Zacharias
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