Issue of a Livelock Happening When Average Throughput of Incoming Requests Increased from 2000 to 4000 on a 64-bit Machine (Doc ID 1363543.1)

Last updated on MAY 18, 2021

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During high load, when incoming requests increased from 2000 to 4000, a livelock occurs on a 64-bit machine. The server starts rejecting almost all the requests due to the livelock in high load. According to the documentation and stack, the old deprecated com.sun.net.ssl api (JSSE 1.02 provider) is used in the code instead of the new javax.net.ssl implementation, which, according to the new JSSE standard API, implements a non-blocking engine. Both packages are still available in the jsse.jar for backward compatibility.

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