Re: Measuring the worker thread count

2008-09-25 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 26-Sep-08, at 12:03 AM, Thomas wrote: The server has a low CPU load and low request rate, so it's not the server. I believe that some requests are causing a deadlock in their worker thread, and these build up until the max descriptors limit is reached. Best you can do is getting a thre

Re: Measuring the worker thread count

2008-09-25 Thread Thomas
Chuck, thanks for the rapid and useful response. The server has a low CPU load and low request rate, so it's not the server. I believe that some requests are causing a deadlock in their worker thread, and these build up until the max descriptors limit is reached. I've used your default a

Measuring the worker thread count

2008-09-25 Thread Thomas
I have a deployed application that is occasionally opening a huge number of file descriptors and brining down the server. I believe that it is caused by one or more requests getting stuck, and because each worker thread opens many files, the max descriptors limit is reached. I want to test