Many thanks for these suggestions, Justin.  I'll refer
to them the next time I encounter this problem.

--- Justin Ruthenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Figure out the answers to the following and you'll
> probably figure 
> out what's causing the problem:
> 
> (1) When Tomcat is "frozen", can you interact with
> the 
> Admin/Manager apps?
> (2) When it's "frozen", do any non-database requests
> succeed (such 
> as an image served through Tomcat's default
> servlet)?
> (3) Do you have any custom threads that could be
> getting locked up 
> under certain cases?
> (4) If you get a thread dump when it's "frozen",
> what do you 
> see?  Spinning threads?  Deadlocks?  Nothing
> interesting?
> (5) Bump you logging levels up.  When your app gets
> frozen, does 
> any logging appear at all?
> (6) If it looks like it's a db thing, are you able
> to connect to 
> your database through a different app when your
> webApp is frozen?
> (7) Is anyone using the app between the time you go
> to bed and wake 
> up?  Some action (either user or system) is causing
> the hang -- 
> what is it?
> 
> Just something to get you started.  Since you've
> seen this on 
> various versions of Tomcat and Cocoon (and there's
> no accepted 
> issues with this happening, to the best of my
> knowledge), I'd put 
> my money on your app/deployment/network as the
> culprit.
> 
> Let us know what you find...
> 
> justin
> 
> 
> At 05:26 PM 10/22/2003, you wrote:
> 
> Interesting observation.  I think you might be onto
> something, but let's explore it a bit further.
> 
> I'm using DBCP with a MySQL backend database.  I
> don't
> really get why Tomcat would stop responding though
> after several hours of idle time though.  You think
> it's because after all those hours of idle time the
> #
> of db connections is 0?  I thought the connection
> pool
> could handle that and create a new connection when
> needed.
> 
> I think I'm not understanding though...do enlighten
> me. :-)
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Sonny
> 
> --- mike jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > When this has happened to me it's usually been
> the
>  > database connection pool
>  > that I'm using.  Or was using.  If it looks like
> you
>  > had a bunch of
>  > connections prior to the restart and very few
> after
>  > then you've found your
>  > culprit.  You database should be able to give you
> a
>  > connection count, but
>  > the way to get it depends on the database so I
> can't
>  > help you there.
>  >
>  > --mikej
>  > -=------
>  > mike jackson
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>  >
>  >
>  > > -----Original Message-----
>  > > From: Sonny Sukumar
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  > > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 3:25 PM
>  > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  > > Subject: Tomcat mysteriously stops
> responding...
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Hey guys,
>  > >
>  > > I've had the persistent problem with Tomcat
> (using
>  > > Cocoon) over some months now where when I go to
>  > bed at
>  > > night my Tomcat/Cocoon server is functioning
> just
>  > fine
>  > > and I can access all web pages, both static and
>  > > dynamically generated (from a backend db).
>  > >
>  > > But when I wake up and try to access the pages
> the
>  > > connection just times out and I get a totally
>  > blank
>  > > response.  This doesn't happen every single
> day,
>  > but
>  > > often enough to be annoying.  We're soon going
>  > live
>  > > with the site, so this happening **at all** is
> a
>  > scary
>  > > thought.  I can't seem to figure out what the
>  > problem
>  > > could be.
>  > >
>  > > I'm fairly sure it's Tomcat because restarting
>  > Tomcat
>  > > almost always solves the problem.  I've had
> this
>  > > problem through all my Tomcat upgrades (4.1.12
> all
>  > the
>  > > way to 4.1.27 now) and my Cocoon upgrades (from
>  > 2.0.x
>  > > all the way until latest 2.1.2).
>  > >
>  > > Has anybody else experienced this?  Any idea
> what
>  > it
>  > > could be?
>  > >
>  > > Thanks!
>  > >
>  > > Sonny
>  > >
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