I maintain and using three standalone tomcat servers. One of the three has a request count of 40000-70000 per day, and traffic 1-5.5 gb traffic per month.
cu Torsten Fohrer On Friday 13 December 2002 04:23, you wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Mike W-M wrote: > > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:24:27 -0000 > > From: Mike W-M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Tomcat uptime and stability in production environments > > > > I remember someone telling me once, "No wonder we're having problems - > > that NT box hasn't been rebooted for a week." > > > > I haven't seen any mention of it here, but wondered if anyone has any > > similar(ly pithy) advice to offer on matters of Tomcat / Java stability > > and uptime. > > Is one sensible to plan to restart a production Tomcat every night, or > > foolish if you plan to do it every month? > > Do JVMs eat more and more memory unless they're restarted? > > > > I'm planning to deploy on Linux, but it'd be interesting to see how > > opinion varies by platform. > > Although I regularly reloaded my Tomcat-based app (mostly to add new > features), I had the luxury of managing one Linux-based server that stayed > up for over 400 days (i.e. well over a year) without a reboot -- and we > only had to then because the machine was being moved to a new power plug > at the ISP's co-lo site :-). > > More seriously, the precise behavior is pretty dependent on exactly which > versions of JDK and Tomcat you're using, as well as any possible memory > leaks in your app, or the libraries it uses (JDBC drivers can be > notorious). I'd probably start with a weekly cycle on a heavily used app, > but monitor things to see if more often or less often would be > appropriate. > > > Ta. > > Mike. > > Craig > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional > commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
