Sunday, June 19, 2011

Uses of semaphores

What are some possible uses for counting semaphores? The following come to mind:

  • Limiting concurrent access to disk (this can kill performance due to competing disk seeks)
  • Thread creation limiting
  • JDBC connection pooling / limiting
  • Network connection throttling
  • Throttling CPU or memory intensive tasks

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