Re: how to programmatically expire inactive sessions?

[Kirill Kireyev]

Thanks Shanti! I think your hypothesis is that these sessions remain active, due to client-side polling. However, I don't think that's the case - these sessions are listed as *inactive* (or rather inactive for longer than 20 mins) in the Tomcat manager web application. And hitting "Expire (sessions > 20mins)" causes them to expire! So they are inactive sessions, but are somehow not expired automatically. -Kirill On 10/10/12 12:18 PM, Shanti Suresh wrote: Hi Kirill, At this point, I'm thinking that perhaps a network traffic capture might give you some clues.  Just see the kind of traffic coming in to the server.   You may use wireshark easily to both capture and see traffic.  Setup up a capture filter to capture traffic to and from your server machine.  Then you can selectively view what you traffic you want to see using display filters. A quick capture-filter reference is: http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureFilters Then, you can select one client machine that talks to the server, and then do a second traffic capture; this time, only capture traffic from that client machine to the server.  See what's going one.  Just see how often the client and server talk and what data is contained  in the packet.  It is possible that there is some polling going on. Analyzing network traffic might give you a clue on what conversation is going on with the Tomcat server that's keeping the sessions active. Thanks.                                 -Shanti On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kirill, On 10/9/12 2:36 PM, Kirill Kireyev wrote: > I never modified/extended the Tomcat code, so I doubt it. This has nothing to do with Tomcat's code: HttpSessionBindingListener and HttpSessionListener are servlet-API interfaces that you might implement in your own product. If they are written badly, then might interfere with Tomcat's session-expiration thread. I use Tomcat 5.5, 6.0, and 7.0 and none of them have any problem with expiring sessions after the configured expiration interval. > Could it be that I'm allocating too much heap memory (-Xmx20000M), > so that Tomcat doesn't feel the urgency to clean up? This has nothing to do with Tomcat's desire to clean anything up: the session-cleanup thread runs at the same interval regardless of the heap size. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlB0il0ACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAH9QCfdMlqsZ9FmL+cyGGDkYSsbUs9 TYsAnjh+fMcmNBZshzICboVHP6x6z4EI =aKfk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org -- Kirill Kireyev, PhD Founder/CTO instaGrok.com kir...@instagrok.com Twitter: @instaGrok FB: facebook.com/instagrok