Concurrency Anti-pattern Catalog for Java

Resource exhaustion anti-pattern

Problem: “A group of threads together hold all of a finite number of resources. One of them needs additional resources but no other thread gives one up" [Lea00].

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Context: Trying to optimize a concurrent program by limiting resources.

Solution: One solution is to consider allocating additional resources. Another solution is to limit all threads? access to resources.

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References:

[Lea00] D. Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns, Second Edition. Addison Wesley, 2000.