Howdy,
Yup, it's good to document, so I'm glad you did.  Now if only people
would search the archives before asking questions for the zillionth
time, we'd be in good shape ;)  Glad it's working for you.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Noam Camiel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 7:37 AM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: Re: tomcat jitters, then hangs - please help
>
>Hi folks,
>A week's gone by and all seems fine.  Server is stable and working
>properly.
>Thanks for all who helped out! Ryan, Remi Yoav and Arthur, many thanks.
>It may be a good idea to document this for others who may stumble over
this
>problem.
>All the best
>Noam Camiel
>
>Details:
>Problem: Tomcat Server becomes unresponsive to new requests after
several
>hours, regardless of load.
>OS RH9; Tomcat 4 or 5; VM Sun or IBM (JDK 1.4)
>Solve: (tcsh): setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.2.5
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Shapira, Yoav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 3:06 PM
>Subject: RE: tomcat jitters, then hangs - please help
>
>
>
>Howdy,
>Cool, please keep us updated ;)  I want these linux questions better
>documented in the list archives ;)
>
>Yoav Shapira
>Millennium ChemInformatics
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Noam Camiel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 6:37 AM
>>To: Euan Guttridge; Tomcat Users List
>>Subject: Re: tomcat jitters, then hangs - please help
>>
>>Hi Euan
>>
>>Please note the server is now up for 48 hours strait.
>>The change I've made is I've set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to 2.2.5
>>I will update again in another 48 hours or if the server hangs,
>whichever
>>comes first.....
>>
>>Regards,
>>Noam
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Euan Guttridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:42 AM
>>Subject: FW: tomcat jitters, then hangs - please help
>>
>>
>>> Hi Noam,
>>>
>>> I work with Ryan on tomcat issues. I would be grateful if you would
>let
>>me
>>> know if your tomcat installation is *still* up (another 24 hours)
>since
>>the
>>> NPTL change as below.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Euan
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Noam Camiel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Sent: 14 October 2003 14:46
>>> To: Tomcat Users List
>>> Subject: Re: tomcat jitters, then hangs - please help
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Friday, October 10, 2003 11:09 AM "Ryan Lissack"
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> > Remy pointed out to me previously that RH9 uses a new form of
>threading
>>> and
>>> > based on this we have done some investigation.
>>> >
>>> > RH9 uses NTPL (Native POSIX Thread Library)
>>> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/release-
>>notes/x86/
>>> >
>>> > It is possible to revert to the older form of threading,
>>"LinuxThreads",
>>> by
>>> > setting an environment variable, namely:
>>> > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=<kernel-version>
>>> > - 2.4.1 - Linuxthreads with floating stacks
>>> > - 2.2.5 - Linuxthreads without floating stacks
>>> >
>>> > This does not revert back to an older kernel, it just changes the
>GNU C
>>> > library used
>http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtc/
>>> >
>>> > We will be testing with these settings starting today and, if we
>>continue
>>> to
>>> > have problems, we will be trying another distro.
>>>
>>> setting the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL variable, the server is now running
over
>24
>>> hours strait.
>>> Still, nothing conclusive as of yet......
>>> Ryan, thanks for the information above.  Do you have move
information
>>> regarding this configuration? do you still encounter problems?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, October 13, 2003 9:59 PM "Joe Zendle"
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > We had the same problem w/ TC 4.1.27, sun jvm 1.4.2 and redhat 9.
>The
>>> > thing wouldn't work for more than about 12 hours. IMHO, there are
>some
>>> > fundamental problems with tomcat as of late. Hate to say it but we
>>> > solved the problem by throwing away tomcat and using jetty! We are
>very
>>> > pleased so far. Jetty is very fast and about 1/3 the memory
>footprint.
>>> >
>>> > Good luck.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Joe,
>>> Thanks for sharing the info, I am considering what you suggest as
>well.
>>> As a last try before moving away from Tomcat, I'm trying out the
>>suggestion
>>> from Ryan above.
>>> Regards,
>>> Noam.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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