Thread Model

Description

• This article gives an introduction to thread models in soul and usage in various scenarios.

IO And Work Thread

• spring-webflux is one of dependencies of soul, and it uses Netty thread model in lower layer.

Business Thread

• Use scheduling thread to execute by default.
• A fixed thread pool manages business threads, the number of threads is count in this formula: cpu * 2 + 1.

Type Switching

• reactor.core.scheduler.Schedulers.
• -Dsoul.scheduler.type=fixed is a default config. If set to other value, a flexible thread pool will take place it.Schedulers.elastic().
• -Dsoul.work.threads = xx is for configuring number of threads, the default value calculates in following formula cpu * 2 + 1 with a minimum of 16 threads.