[Fwd: Re: RMI with netCDF and java]

• Subject: [Fwd: Re: RMI with netCDF and java]
• From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:40:32 -0700

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Subject: Re: RMI with netCDF and java
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:39:49 -0700
From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Brian Schlining <brian@xxxxxxxxx>
References: <3A240AED.6040302@xxxxxxxxx>

sorry forgot this question:

> 
> The NetcdfServer does not appear to be multithreaded. Can it accept
> requests from several clients a one time?

It will make other clients wait while it finishes a request, but it will
queue the requests so that it will typically be transparent to everyone,
other than latency. Note that with RMI, the client blocks while waiting
for the method to complete.

Multithreading servers can help, but really only solves it on a
multiprocessor CPU and possibly multiple disks. What you really want is
non-blocking clients, which will come eventually.