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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -----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 > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > The New Yahoo! 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