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Wim Deblauwe
Wim Deblauwe

Reputation: 26858

How can I limit the threads netty uses for client connections

Is there a way to limit how many threads netty uses for client connections (Netty is the client which connect to a remote server). I am using 1 NioEventLoopGroup which is passed into each Bootstrap. Each of those Bootstraps gets the same ChannelInitializer reference (I used to create different initializers for each Bootstrap, but it seems to work fine sharing the same reference). I am connected from my Java application to many hardware devices which act as the server.

I have noticed that currently up to 16 threads are used (I am on an 8 core machine, from what I have read Netty uses 2 times the number of cores by default). They are named nioEventLoopGroup-2-1 to nioEventLoopGroup-2-16 from what I see in my logging. The 17th server I connect to will run on nioEventLoopGroup-2-1 again.

1) Is there a way to change this default of threads used?

2) Any idea why the group starts to count from 2?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2526

Answers (2)

Wim Deblauwe
Wim Deblauwe

Reputation: 26858

I saw in the source code that it is also possible to set it via a System property: io.netty.eventLoopThreads

Upvotes: 0

Norman Maurer
Norman Maurer

Reputation: 23557

If you pass 1 to the NioEventLoopGroup and share the instance between the bootstraps only one client will be used.

Upvotes: 2

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