Sunday, October 27, 2013

c3p0 connection pool


c3p0 is very tunable, and offers a somewhat bewildering array of configuration parameters. 

initialPoolSize C3P0 default: 3

minPoolSize Must be set in hibernate.cfg.xml (or hibernate.properties), Hibernate default: 1

maxPoolSize Must be set in hibernate.cfg.xml (or hibernate.properties), Hibernate default: 100

idleTestPeriod Must be set in hibernate.cfg.xml (or hibernate.properties), Hibernate default: 0
If this is a number greater than 0, c3p0 will test all idle, pooled but unchecked-out connections, every this number of seconds.

timeout Must be set in hibernate.cfg.xml (or hibernate.properties), Hibernate default: 0
The seconds a Connection can remain pooled but unused before being discarded. Zero means idle connections never expire.

maxStatements Must be set in hibernate.cfg.xml (or hibernate.properties), Hibernate default: 0
The size of c3p0's PreparedStatement cache. Zero means statement caching is turned off.
unreturnedConnectionTimeout=3600 default(0) I’ve set this to 1 hour. If a Connection is used for longer than an hour, then C3P0 will assume it’s been orphaned and will reclaim the Connection to the pool – closing it in the process.

propertyCycle Must be set in c3p0.properties, C3P0 default: 300
Maximum time in seconds before user configuration constraints are enforced. c3p0 enforces configuration constraints continually, and ignores this parameter. It is included for JDBC3 completeness.

acquireIncrement Must be set in hibernate.cfg.xml (or hibernate.properties), Hibernate default: 1
Determines how many connections at a time c3p0 will try to acquire when the pool is exhausted.

testConnectionOnCheckout Must be set in c3p0.properties, C3P0 default: false
Don't use it, this feature is very expensive. If set to true, an operation will be performed at every connection checkout to verify that the connection is valid. A better choice is to verify connections periodically using c3p0.idleConnectionTestPeriod.

autoCommitOnClose Must be set in c3p0.properties, C3P0 default: false
The JDBC spec is unfortunately silent on what should happen to unresolved, pending transactions on Connection close. C3P0's default policy is to rollback any uncommitted, pending work. (I think this is absolutely, undeniably the right policy, but there is no consensus among JDBC driver vendors.) Setting autoCommitOnClose to true causes uncommitted pending work to be committed, rather than rolled back on Connection close. [Note: Since the spec is absurdly unclear on this question, application authors who wish to avoid bugs and inconsistent behavior should ensure that all transactions are explicitly either committed or rolled-back before close is called.]

forceIgnoreUnresolvedTransactions Must be set in c3p0.properties, C3P0 default: false
Strongly disrecommended. Setting this to true may lead to subtle and bizarre bugs. This is a terrible setting, leave it alone unless absolutely necessary. It is here to work around broken databases / JDBC drivers that do not properly support transactions, but that allow Connections' autoCommit flags to be set to false regardless. If you are using a database that supports transactions "partially" (this is oxymoronic, as the whole point of transactions is to perform operations reliably and completely, but nevertheless, such databases exist), if you feel comfortable ignoring the fact that Connections with autoCommit == false may be in the middle of transactions and may hold locks and other resources, you may turn off c3p0's wise default behavior, which is to protect itself, as well as the usability and consistency of the database, by either rolling back (default) or committing (see c3p0.autoCommitOnClose above) unresolved transactions. This should only be set to true when you are sure you are using a database that allows Connections' autoCommit flag to go to false, but that it offers no other meaningful support of transactions. Otherwise setting this to true is just a bad idea.

numHelperThreads Must be set in c3p0.properties, C3P0 default: 3
c3p0 is very asynchronous. Slow JDBC operations are generally performed by helper threads that don't hold contended locks. Spreading these operations over multiple threads can significantly improve performance by allowing multiple operations to be performed simultaneously.

factoryClassLocation Must be set in c3p0.properties, C3P0 default: null



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Configuration for c3p0 connection pool


<bean id="notificationDataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource" destroy-method="close">
    <property name="driverClass"><value>#{notification.db.driver}</value></property>
    <property name="jdbcUrl"><value>#{notification.db.url}</value></property>
    <property name="user"><value>#{notification.db.username}</value></property>
    <property name="password"><value>#{encrypted.notification.db.password}</value></property>
    <property name="initialPoolSize"><value>#{notification.c3po.initial.poolsize}</value></property>
    <property name="minPoolSize"><value>#{notification.c3po.min.poolsize}</value></property>
    <property name="maxPoolSize"><value>#{notification.c3po.max.poolsize}</value></property>
    <property name="acquireIncrement"><value>#{notification.c3po.acquireIncrement}</value></property>
    <property name="maxStatementsPerConnection"><value>#{c3po.maxStatementsPerConnection}</value></property>
    <property name="numHelperThreads"><value>#{notification.c3po.numHelperThreads}</value></property>
    <property name="automaticTestTable"><value>c3p0_test_table</value></property>
    <property name="maxConnectionAge"><value>#{c3po.maxConnectionAge}</value></property>
    <property name="maxIdleTime"><value>#{c3po.maxIdleTime}</value></property>
    <property name="maxIdleTimeExcessConnections"><value>#{c3po.maxIdleTimeExcessConnections}</value></property>
    <property name="idleConnectionTestPeriod"><value>#{c3po.idleConnectionTestPeriod}</value></property>
    <property name="testConnectionOnCheckin"><value>#{c3po.testConnectionOnCheckin}</value></property>
    <property name="testConnectionOnCheckout"><value>#{c3po.testConnectionOnCheckout}</value></property>
    <property name="acquireRetryAttempts"><value>#{c3po.acquireRetryAttempts}</value></property>
    <property name="acquireRetryDelay"><value>#{c3po.acquireRetryDelay}</value></property>
    <property name="unreturnedConnectionTimeout"><value>#{c3po.unreturned.connection.timeout}</value></property>
    <property name="DebugUnreturnedConnectionStackTraces"><value>#{c3po.debug.unreturned.connection.stacktrace}</value></property>
</bean>

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Useful in c3Po connection pool debugging

debugUnreturnedConnectionStackTraces
Default: false
If true, and if unreturnedConnectionTimeout is set to a positive value, then the pool will capture the stack trace (via an Exception)

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