Re: trouble starting tomcat: error 0 on Windows 64bit

2009-05-16 Thread Todd Hivnor
One troubleshooting suggestion would be to confirm that Java itself is working. Use java -version, and run some basic HelloWorld program. If Java isn't working, Tomcat won't stand a chance. - Original Message From: w...@serensoft.com w...@serensoft.com To: users@tomcat.apache.org

Re: file type being blocked by IE

2009-05-14 Thread Todd Hivnor
I'm not sure if it still behaves this way. But historically IE has ignored the declared content-type and instead used the file extension. The work-around was to add a bogus argument to the URL: http://server/get-the-goodies.jsp?filetype=.zip This way it looks like a .zip file to IE. Also,

Re: Preventing OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

2009-05-12 Thread Todd Hivnor
From: Todd Hivnor [spambox_98...@yahoo.com] I would like to proactively avoid running out of heap space. I would like people get a Server Too Busy message, _before_ the heap is actually exhausted. I would rather serve 40 users well than 45 users poorly. Rather than monitor memory, which

Re: Preventing OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

2009-05-12 Thread Todd Hivnor
But would it not be easier to catch the OOM exception and then return a sorry, server overloaded page to the browser ? It's difficult to do that when the OOME may occur in Tomcat code, outside of control of the webapp. Wow I had assumed I could always catch this type of exception. Thanks

Preventing OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

2009-05-11 Thread Todd Hivnor
I have a Java application running under Tomcat 6.0.18 on Ubuntu. This is using Sun's 1.6.0_07 JVM. I know how to set the max heap space by setting -Xmx256m in CATALINA_OPTS. But with a lot of sessions, I still have the possibility of running out of heap space. My application uses a lot of