George Sexton wrote: > I've got a question and it's kind of deep developer question. > > I was poking around today looking at my tomcat instance running under Linux. > > I was looking in the /proc/<pid>/fd directory, which is the list of file > descriptors open by my servlet application. > > There are around 1400 open file descriptors. What I don't understand is why > there are some 800+ file descriptors that are open to /dev/urandom. On this > particular host there are some 400 configured hosts/contexts. > > On another server, there are 1100 file descriptors open to /dev/urandom. For > this server, there are around 200 configured hosts/contexts. > > I'm using Sun JDK 1.6.0_14 on OpenSUSE 11.1. One machine is amd64 > architecture, while the other is i386. > > Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? It seems kind of > strange to have 800-1200 file descriptors open to one pseudo file.
Take a look at ManagerBase.getRandom(). The probably explains the majority of it. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
