As much as I respect Remy's opinions, this looks very much like a typical GC delay. You might want to experiment with the 'incremental-gc' option on your JVM (the actual syntax varies by vendor: try 'java -help' to see which option to use).
"Remy Maucherat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Ben Glorie wrote: > > We're running Tomcat 4.1.12 on a dual-proc PIII with 512MB RAM. The > > application consists of 100,000+ HTML pages and approx. 100 jsp pages. We > > get approx. 60,000 page views per day. Performance is fine, but occasionally > > the system runs into the following problem: > > > > - when you request a jsp page in the browser, there is a delay of 5-10 > > seconds, then the page is loaded into the browser > > - even though the HTML code is complete and all images are visible, the > > browser still appears to be loading something ("load" bar is creeping) > > - then after approx. 30 seconds the loading stops (because of a page > > timeout?) > > - static HTML pages are not affected, they load as quickly as usual > > Before trying to look into this further, I would upgrade to Tomcat > 4.1.18, and see if there are still problems. > > Remy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>