(experiment) Also add clients to loom experiment

ROADMAP.md

@@ -48,10 +48,6 @@ filter for any API consumer.
 
 I've talked to the stract dev and he does not think it's a good idea to mimic their optics language, which is quite ad-hoc, but instead to work together to find some new common description language for this. 
 
-## Show favicons next to search results
-
-This is expected from search engines.  Basic proof of concept sketch of fetching this data has been done, but the feature is some way from being reality. 
-
 ## Specialized crawler for github
 
 One of the search engine's biggest limitations right now is that it does not index github at all.   A specialized crawler that fetches at least the readme.md would go a long way toward providing search capabilities in this domain.
@@ -66,6 +62,10 @@ The documents database probably should have some sort of flag indicating it's a
 PDF parsing is known to be a bit of a security liability so some thought needs to be put in
 that direction as well.
 
+## Show favicons next to search results (COMPLETED 2025-03)
+
+This is expected from search engines.  Basic proof of concept sketch of fetching this data has been done, but the feature is some way from being reality.
+
 ## Web Design Overhaul (COMPLETED 2025-01)
 
 The design is kinda clunky and hard to maintain, and needlessly outdated-looking.  

code/common/service/java/nu/marginalia/service/client/GrpcChannelPoolFactory.java

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import nu.marginalia.service.discovery.property.ServicePartition;
 import nu.marginalia.util.NamedExecutorFactory;
 
 import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
 import java.util.function.Function;
 
 @Singleton
@@ -20,8 +21,12 @@ public class GrpcChannelPoolFactory {
 
     private final NodeConfigurationWatcher nodeConfigurationWatcher;
     private final ServiceRegistryIf serviceRegistryIf;
-    private static final Executor executor = NamedExecutorFactory.createFixed("gRPC-Channel-Pool",
+
-            Math.clamp(Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() / 2, 2, 32));
+    private static final boolean useLoom = Boolean.getBoolean("system.experimentalUseLoom");
+
+    private static final Executor executor = useLoom
+            ? Executors.newVirtualThreadPerTaskExecutor()
+            : NamedExecutorFactory.createFixed("gRPC-Channel-Pool", Math.clamp(Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() / 2, 2, 32));
     private static final Executor offloadExecutor = NamedExecutorFactory.createFixed("gRPC-Offload-Pool",
             Math.clamp(Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() / 2, 2, 32));
 

code/common/service/java/nu/marginalia/service/server/GrpcServer.java

@@ -13,9 +13,14 @@ import nu.marginalia.util.NamedExecutorFactory;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
 
 public class GrpcServer {
     private final Server server;
+
+    private static final boolean useLoom = Boolean.getBoolean("system.experimentalUseLoom");
+
     public GrpcServer(ServiceConfiguration config,
                       ServiceRegistryIf serviceRegistry,
                       ServicePartition partition,
@@ -26,8 +31,13 @@ public class GrpcServer {
         int nThreads = Math.clamp(Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() / 2, 2, 16);
 
         // Start the gRPC server
+
+        ExecutorService workExecutor = useLoom ?
+                Executors.newVirtualThreadPerTaskExecutor() :
+                NamedExecutorFactory.createFixed("nettyExecutor", nThreads);
+
         var grpcServerBuilder = NettyServerBuilder.forAddress(new InetSocketAddress(config.bindAddress(), port))
-                .executor(NamedExecutorFactory.createFixed("nettyExecutor", nThreads))
+                .executor(workExecutor)
                 .workerEventLoopGroup(new NioEventLoopGroup(nThreads, NamedExecutorFactory.createFixed("Worker-ELG", nThreads)))
                 .bossEventLoopGroup(new NioEventLoopGroup(nThreads, NamedExecutorFactory.createFixed("Boss-ELG", nThreads)))
                 .channelType(NioServerSocketChannel.class);

code/processes/ping-process/java/nu/marginalia/ping/BackoffStrategy.java

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public class BackoffStrategy {
         };
 
         double backoffMinutes = baseInterval.toMinutes()
-                * Math.pow(multiplier, backoffConsecutiveFailures - 1);
+                * Math.pow(multiplier, Math.clamp(backoffConsecutiveFailures, 1, 10));
 
         Duration newDuration = Duration.ofMinutes(Math.round(0.5+backoffMinutes));
         if (newDuration.compareTo(maxInterval) > 0) {