IMHO, try jakarta.apache.org JMeter. Take a close look at the very rigorous 
load/stress testing so-called Test Plan that is a distributed load test. HTH.

Tobias Schulz-Hess wrote ..
> Hi there,
>
> we use the current Tomcat 6.0 on 2 machines. The hardware is brand new and is 
> really
> fast. We get lots of traffic which is usually handled well by the tomcats and 
> the
> load on those machines is between 1 and 6 (when we have lots of traffic).
> The machines have debian 4.1/64 as OS.
>
> However, sometimes (especially if we have lots of traffic) we get the 
> following
> exception:
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/01/23 15:28:18 | java.net.SocketException: Too many 
> open
> files
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/01/23 15:28:18 |       at 
> java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketAccept(Native
> Method)
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/01/23 15:28:18 |       at 
> java.net.PlainSocketImpl.accept(PlainSocketImpl.java:384)
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/01/23 15:28:18 |       at 
> java.net.ServerSocket.implAccept(ServerSocket.java:453)
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/01/23 15:28:18 |       at 
> java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:421)
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/01/23 15:28:18 |       at 
> org.apache.tomcat.util.net.DefaultServerSocketFactory.acceptSocket(DefaultServe
> rSocketFactory.java:61)
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/01/23 15:28:18 |       at 
> org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Acceptor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:310)
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2008/01/23 15:28:18 |       at 
> java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
> I
>
> We already have altered the ulimit from 1024 (default) to 4096 (and therefore 
> proofing:
> yes, I have used google and read almost everything about that exception).
>
> We also looked into the open files and all 95% of them are from or to the 
> Tomcat
> Port 8080. (The other 5% are open JARs, connections to memcached and MySQL and
> SSL-Socket).
>
> Most of the connections to port 8080 are in the CLOSE_WAIT state.
>
> I have the strong feeling that something (tomcat, JVM, whatsoever) relies that
> the JVM garbage collection will kill those open connections. However, if we 
> have
> heavy load, the garbage collection is suspended and then the connections pile 
> up.
> But this is just a guess.
>
> How can this problem be solved?
>
> Thank you and kind regards,
>
> Tobias.
>
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