We are building a public web application that calls a web service on an
internal box. The web service runs for 5-10 minutes, does some heavy
processing, and writes to a database when it is complete. The current design
calls for having the web application's thread sleep for 10 seconds, then
check the database to see if the web service is complete. If the database
claims the web service has completed, it then displays the results from the
database.
There are a number of ways to solve this problem, but I'm wondering what the
true impact of having the thread sleep on overall performance and
availability of our production web server that hosts many other
applications. Obiviously the thread isn't doing anything, but it still is
tying up a thread. Is this a big deal? Is there a way to quantify or
measure its impact and/or determine how far it would scale?
Thanks in advance.
Mark
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Web Application threads are limited in quantity. I think by default there
are only 100 of them per processor.
If there are more calls than that ASP.NET throws "Server Busy" error.
So if you hanging those threads for 5-10 minutes you have pretty good
chances to run out of them very fast.
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I would recommend pulling. The client (browser) shows "Processing.... ." and
refreshes screen very second or so. As soon as database shows that request
was processed it redirects to normal page.
It's easy to do with Ajax method then client will not even see browser
refreshing.
George.
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We are building a public web application that calls a web service on an
internal box. The web service runs for 5-10 minutes, does some heavy
processing, and writes to a database when it is complete. The current
design calls for having the web application's thread sleep for 10 seconds,
then check the database to see if the web service is complete. If the
database claims the web service has completed, it then displays the
results from the database.
There are a number of ways to solve this problem, but I'm wondering what
the true impact of having the thread sleep on overall performance and
availability of our production web server that hosts many other
applications. Obiviously the thread isn't doing anything, but it still is
tying up a thread. Is this a big deal? Is there a way to quantify or
measure its impact and/or determine how far it would scale?
Thanks in advance.
Mark
Very simply, a sleeping thread means it is tied up and unable to service
other requests, so yes there will certainly be an impact.
Have you looked into using the asynchronous versions of your WebMethods
(e.g. BeginXXX / EndXXX) ?
Peter
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"Mark" wrote:
We are building a public web application that calls a web service on an
internal box. The web service runs for 5-10 minutes, does some heavy
processing, and writes to a database when it is complete. The current design
calls for having the web application's thread sleep for 10 seconds, then
check the database to see if the web service is complete. If the database
claims the web service has completed, it then displays the results from the
database.
There are a number of ways to solve this problem, but I'm wondering what the
true impact of having the thread sleep on overall performance and
availability of our production web server that hosts many other
applications. Obiviously the thread isn't doing anything, but it still is
tying up a thread. Is this a big deal? Is there a way to quantify or
measure its impact and/or determine how far it would scale?
Thanks in advance.
Mark
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