Support Forums: Message List - Increasing heap size – beware of the Cobra Effect

cause and effect => control

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:53:33 -0400

Ok, now I got it. Yes, in highly congested situations, especially in optimistic locking "fail-and-retry" algorithms, reducing concurrency can actually improve throughput.

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cause and effect => control

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:44:04 -0400

I can limit call throughput in various ways - concurrency or delay (via adaptive resource management).

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cause and effect => control

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:59:06 -0400

I am not quite sure I have understood your point. Do you mean to limit the throughput by artificially limiting the amount of concurrent users thus decreasing the allocation rate? First of all this only shifts your multi seconds pauses to the future,...

cause and effect => control

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:34:39 -0400

You seem to ignore one of the most important techniques used network the underlies all of these web applications...call traffic management...you control the rate of allocation by control the degree of concurrent execution and the rate of method...

Increasing heap size – beware of the Cobra Effect

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:14:25 -0400

The term ‘Cobra effect’ stems from an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British government was...