I am not the creator of this application. In fact I have to be honest and say I am trying to learn what I can about Java and Tomcat but know so little I could be considered dangerous. I have already caused a crash of this system because I accidentally moved a .war file that was needed by the application to function. I was lucky enough to be able to get the .war file back into its appropriate location but that incident has seriously scared me into submission on this Tomcat stuff. I do believe I recall the developer stating a long time ago that he thought there was something going on with the memory that could be causing this problem but he was not sure exactly what was causing it. Is there anything that a "knows enough to be dangerous" administrator like me can do to find out the cause of this problem? Or am I destined to stop and restart this application every day from here on out?
Steve From: Propes, Barry L sounds like you've got some thread hanging in there somewhere, but the logs don't indicate which one might be hanging? Also sounds like a memory issue; is it possible someone created some kind of servlet or app that manually controls Java's garbage collection? -----Original Message----- From: Steve Ingraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:24 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Tomcat unexpectedly shuts down I have a similar problem. I would be interested to know what is said about this. In our case we have a web based application that calls up a MySQL database. It is running in Tomcat 5.5.15 on a Red Hat AS 3 machine. Every morning I have to manually stop and restart Tomcat. If I do not do so and let it run, over the course of a day or two, definitely no more than the third day, Tomcat will lock up and the web application will display access errors to the users. I then have to run the shutdown.sh script on Tomcat. Then because the instance will not clear out I have to run ps aux, find the instance of java that is running. I then have to run the kill -9 <pid #> command and then startup.sh to restart Tomcat. If I do this first thing in the morning Tomcat will function without locking up. If I do not do it first thing in the morning, sometime during that day, or if I am lucky the next day, Tomcat will lockup. If anyone has ideas on what can be done to correct this problem I will be anxious to read any replies. Thanks, Steve -----Original Message----- From: Propes, Barry L [GCG-NAOT] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:06 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Tomcat unexpectedly shuts down I'd find out what other major processes are running on those two UNIX boxes, as it sounds like something there's clashing terribly, and killing off the Tomcat process. -----Original Message----- From: Brown, Carlton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:01 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Tomcat unexpectedly shuts down Hello, My Tomcat instance is unexpectedly shutting itself down every 8 to 72 hours. Can someone give me some advice on this? By all appearances this is a graceful shutdown. I do not see any interesting exceptions in the logs (I have looked in catalina.out and the various localhost* files). Perhaps I am looking for the wrong thing. This happens on Tomcat 4.1.31 and 5.028 on Redhat Linux and Solaris 10. JSP apps running on the server are about 3 different instances of Anthill 1.8.0.264. Thanks in advance, Carlton ***** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers. GA623 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]