tomcat 8.5 broken pipe increases open files on ubuntu AWS If there is slow response from db I see this stack trace and the open files goes high and the only way to open files go down is to remove the instance from Amazon load balancer.
Is there a way to keep the open files low even when Broken pipe error is thrown ? org.apache.catalina.connector.ClientAbortException: java.io.IOException: Broken pipe at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:393) at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:426) at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.doFlush(OutputBuffer.java:342) at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.flush(OutputBuffer.java:317) at org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.flushBuffer(Response.java:497) at org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade.flushBuffer(ResponseFacade.java:318) at org.springframework.boot.web.support.ErrorPageFilter.doFilter(ErrorPageFilter.java:126) at org.springframework.boot.web.support.ErrorPageFilter.access$000(ErrorPageFilter.java:61) at org.springframework.boot.web.support.ErrorPageFilter$1.doFilterInternal(ErrorPageFilter.java:94) at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107) at org.springframework.boot.web.support.ErrorPageFilter.doFilter(ErrorPageFilter.java:112) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:240) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:207) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:494) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:141) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:616) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:522) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1095) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:672) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1520) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1476) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: java.io.IOException: Broken pipe at sun.nio.ch.FileDispatcherImpl.write0(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.SocketDispatcher.write(SocketDispatcher.java:47) at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.writeFromNativeBuffer(IOUtil.java:93) at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.write(IOUtil.java:65) at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.write(SocketChannelImpl.java:471) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioChannel.write(NioChannel.java:124) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioBlockingSelector.write(NioBlockingSelector.java:101) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool.write(NioSelectorPool.java:172) at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalNioOutputBuffer.writeToSocket(InternalNioOutputBuffer.java:139) at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalNioOutputBuffer.addToBB(InternalNioOutputBuffer.java:197) at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalNioOutputBuffer.access$000(InternalNioOutputBuffer.java:41) at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalNioOutputBuffer$SocketOutputBuffer.doWrite(InternalNioOutputBuffer.java:320) at org.apache.coyote.http11.filters.ChunkedOutputFilter.doWrite(ChunkedOutputFilter.java:116) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractOutputBuffer.doWrite(AbstractOutputBuffer.java:256) at org.apache.coyote.Response.doWrite(Response.java:501) at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:388) ... 28 common frames omitted