Hi All. I've got a bit of an issue with a tomcat installation - I have an ever increasing number of processes, and the system users complain of intermittant slow performance. When a particular request is taking a long time (generally not responding at all - timing out after a couple of minutes) a page-refresh will generally generate a response in a normal time frame (on the order of 1-2 seconds). To me, this is symptomatic of a particular request hitting a dead tomcat process, while the refresh (being a different request) hits a different tomcat process, which responds in a more normal time.
I'm a sys-admin type, not a developer, and my tomcat-foo is reasonably weak (but getting stronger, the more I do with it, of course). The system is running on a dual processor 2.8 GHz Xeon box, with 4 gig of ram. Base OS is Debian GNU/Linux I'm using the JRockit JVM, and Tomcat 5.0.27 The JVM and tomcat are in a chroot jail The tomcat server is making SOAP calls to another machine, and talking directly to an MS-SQL box - both the machine to which it makes the SOAP calls and the MS-SQL box show no indications of load. When tomcat is freshly restarted, I have 44 tomcat processes (ps ax | grep jrockit | wc -l). Over time (a number of days) this increases, until it hits around 245 processes, and it goes no higher than this. What I'm looking for is some sort of solution - either some tomcat setting I'm unfamiliar with that might be causing this, or some way outside of Tomcat I can put a band-aid style fix in place - restarting tomcat every X days, but that's uglier than I'd like - I'd far rather identify and fix the problem, than do scheduled restarts. Any assistance or suggestions that any kind soul can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Andrew -- They sicken of the calm; http://scroll.redemption.co.nz/ That know the storm. http://www.gadgets-weblog.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]