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Major Description
A connection is leaked/not returned to the pool by the AynchronousValidationRequest. The reason being that it does not full consume the Entity body in all circumstances.
The scenario is as follows:
- max-age and stale-while-revalidate is issued by the server
- When max-age expires, but stale-while-revalidate is still valid a request for the cached item is served from cache, but a background revalidation of the expired content is executed.
- When background revalidation of fresh content is fetched from the backend (upstream). There is a possibility that this refreshed content is now larger than that of the previous entry.
- When this new refreshed content is greater than the maximum byte size that we allow for a single item in the cache. The response's Entity is not consumed. As a result the connection in the pool is not closed correctly; and a connection from the pool is lost.
This can be seen in the test case here:
I have witnessed the exhaustion of the connection pool on a couple of live production servers after they had been running for a period of time.
I have tested and prepared a potential patch for the issue:
I will also attach a patch file creating via git, incase it makes it easier to read/apply to to svn master. Apologies surrounding the test case, as it pulls in an added dependency to set up a mock http server. I couldn't think of another way to represent the issue with EasyMock.
Just as a side question (I apologies for the side tracking), whilst I was investigating this issue I came across the following jira, and I was curious about the applied patch.
in 1425b patch. The proxyied CloseableHttpResponse in SizeLimitedResponseReader includes a super.close(). But the patches applied to trunk miss the super.close(). Is the super.close() needed in order to ensure the closure of resources?
thanks
/dom