camel-netty, disconnectOnNoReply issue - apache-camel

I am trying to send data to Server using camel netty. If Server is not responding to the data within configured time i need to resend the message using the same connection.
To achieve this i am setting disconnectOnNoReply as false.
But even then it is establishing new connection and re-sending the message.
My requirement is to create new connection only after specific retries.

The netty producer uses a connection pool, so you do not have control over which connection is being used for resend. But you could attempt to set the pool size to 1 so the pool is forced to use the same channel.

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Closed db connections are not released from pool

We are having dropwizard application using default configurations provided by dropwizard-jdbi for connecting to database.
Using the following to get sql connection object
Connection dbConnection = handle.getConnection();
Did a code walk-though and verified that the connections that are opened are closed.
But when i check v$session, I can see some inactive-sessions still present and are not getting released for long time.
I am using default connection pool provided by dropwizard.
Please let me know how to get the inactive sessions released.
What are your settings in the configuration file for Dropwizard?
If you have a look at http://www.dropwizard.io/1.3.0/docs/manual/configuration.html#database and then the service configuration there is an option for connections to keep alive.
# the minimum number of connections to keep open
minSize: 10
But most of the times you want to have some connections open this will speed up your application. Your application doesn't have to validate and connect to the database again and again for every call. That's one of the purposes of a connection pool.

Crystal Lang and Database Connection Pool

I have a simple code, using Kemal Crystal Framework with a database pooled connection but only mantain connection on startup, and each request decrease by one of connection to mysql.
As a DB::Database.using_connection says on docs:
yields a connection from the pool the connection is returned to the
pool when the block ends
Must not be closed !!!
https://gist.github.com/valenciaj/534b5c820462db808eac13ba6c392614
You must set max_idle_pool_size DB::Database parameter to mantain opened connections.

persistent tcp socket connection in c

I have a C service application that use tcp socket for connection to a server. The server sends data now and then. Also my application sends a hearbeat every 15 seconds. But sometimes it disconnects while server seems to think the connection is live. Now if I try to reconnect the server refuses as it holds only one connection for the client at a time.
What is the best way to hold a persistent tcp connection?
Edit:
The server usually disconnects after 2 min without heartbeat. So after I find my connection is closed it takes 2min for me to successfully reconnect. I want to minimize this time.
The simplest fix is probably for the server to allow a new connection to replace an old connection rather than rejecting it. That would still keep only one connection to each client at a time.

SYN receives RST,ACK very frequently

Hi Socket Programming experts,
I am writing a proxy server on Linux for SQL server 2005/2008 running on Windows.
The proxy is coded using bsd sockets and in C, and it is working fine with a problem described below.
When I use a database client (written in JAVA, and running on a Linux box) to fire queries (with a concurrency of 100 or more) directly to the Database server, not experiencing connection resets. But through my proxy I am experiencing many connection resets.
Digging deeper I came to know that connection from 'DB client' to 'Proxy' always succeeds
but when the 'Proxy' tries to connect to the DB server the connection fails, due to the SYN packet getting RST,ACK.
That was to give some background. The question is :
Why does sometimes SYN receives RST,ACK?
DB client(linux) to Server(windows) ----> Works fine
DB client(linux) to Proxy(Linux) to Server(windows) -----> problematic
I am aware that this can happen in "connection refused" case but this definitely is not that one. SYN flooding might be another scenario, but that does not explain fine behavior while firing to Server directly.
I am suspecting some socket option setting may be required, that the client does before connecting and my proxy does not. Please put some light on this. Any help (links or pointers) is most appreciated.
Additional info:
Wrote a C client that does concurrent connections, which takes concurrency as an argument. Here are my observations:
-> At 5000 concurrency and above, some connects failed with 'connection refused'.
-> Below 2000, it works fine.
But the actual problem is observed even at a concurrency of 100 or more.
Note: The problem is time dependent sometimes it never comes at all and sometimes it is very frequent and DB client (directly to server) works fine at all times .
SQL Server needs worker threads to accept incoming connections. If your server is worker starved (which can be easily diagnosed by a high number of entries in sys.dm_os_tasks in PENDING state) then attempting to open new connection will fail. So likely what I suspect it happens is that you're pushing to the server more workload that it can handle. You need to optimize the workload or get a beefier server.
Clients like Java client make effective use of connection pooling and, even under a high load, do not need to open new connection hence you do not see this problem, instead you see only delays in requests completion.
A listening socket keeps queue of established connections and connections in establishment process (e.g. SYN got, SYNACK replied, but not ACK from client yet). If a established queue overflows, IP stack reaction differs on OS. The most traditional approach was to ignore newcoming SYNs, waiting when userland accept()s and frees a slot in the queue. With SYN flooding attacks in mid-90s, the new method was invented named "SYN cookies" which drops need for establishment queue totally, in cost of need to support special TCP option.
OTOH I have heard that Windows stacks change their behavior - under some conditions, the reaction to queue overflow is RST response. In earlier stacks (e.g. Win95) this was the main response and client side was correspondingly changed to ignore RST response to SYN:(
That's why I guess that some proxy host feature triggers RST in Windows stack.
Another guess is that DB server closes listening socket at all under some condition (e.g. detected overload peak) which appears only with proxy.
When the SYN receives the RST response, it should not be the problem of SQL-SERVER.
Because the application is able to accept the socket only after the tcp handshake finished.
Is there any device between the Proxy and the SQL-Server machines?
Try to make sure that the RST response come from sql-server machine.
You connection count is far from SYN-FLOOD, I think.

Connection pooling session settings

I have a small but significant query. I'll give a similiar use case but simplified, it does however cover my question.
Let's User A connects to the SQL Server 2000 database and we get a connection from the pool.
User A sets dateformat DMY. Finishes and the connections is released back to the pool.
User B comes along, connects with the same string and gets the same connection from the pool, sets the dateformat MDY, finished and returns the connection.
User A reconnects and gets the same connection, what is the dateformat ?
Is it re initialised on returning to the pool?
Do the connections retain there settings?
When the connection is removed from the pool where does a new connection take it's initial settings?
If you didn't program the pooling mechanism yourself. Its more likely that the connection goes back to its initial state before going into the pool. Moreover, there will be a configuration option where programmers can define or customize the behavior of the connection and the pool. And that is where the new connection gets its setting from. Otherwise, there must be a default settings given by the provider.

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