Sounds to me like your database is timing out the connection. See if you can extend the timeout so it won't drop it during an overnight lull.

james edwards wrote:

No, different machines. But, it works all day and works right after a
restart of tomcat.

j

On 4/28/06, ALEX HYDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Are they on the same machine? If not it could be a
firewall issue? It could be alot of things but that's
a start.

--- james edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I am running 3 servers; Apache, Tomcat (5.5.16, java
> version "1.5.0_06",
> Informix JDBC-1.3.00.JC3) and Informix (7.31.UD2).
> After the app has been idle for several hours tomcat
> cannot access the
> database. Netstat shows not connections to the
> database
> and tcpdump shows no traffic at all going the
> database when queries are made
> to the app (which would cause the database to be
> consulted)
> At first it seemed that the overnight backup of the
> database was causing
> this problem but restarting tomcat after the backup
> only fixes this problem
> for a few more hours.
> I wrote a loop to wget url's that cause the database
> to be consulted every
> 60 sec but after several hours this problem happens
> again. Tomcat seems to
> be fine, I can load the
> management page and restart the app. Only restarting
> tomcat fixes this
> problem, reloading the app does not fix the
> problem.. Nothing is being
> logged during and right before this problem.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions to further debug this
> problem ?




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