I'd like to thank everyone involved, as many of you suspected it turned out to be an infinite loop in a component of our webapp, i've tracked the issue down to the places where it is most possible and gave it over to the owner of the component.
Thank all of you for great help finding it ! Leon On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Leon, > > Leon Rosenberg wrote: >> The last thing I can imagine is that the request somehow gets >> redirected or forwarded infinitely during processing, but is not >> leaving tomcat entirely and just reenters the processing, keeping the >> outer request object, where the mimeheader fields are stored. Is >> something like this possible? > > Unlikely. Here's why: > > 1. A redirect would end the request, freeing all these objects. > You'd probably also notice that many requests were being made. > Also, most browsers give up after a certain number of redirects > in a row. > > 2. Internal forwards (achieved by calling RequestDispatcher.forward) > result in a deeper call stack. Thus, infinite forwards would likely > result in a StackOverflowError. > > My guess is that you have an infinite loop that might not look like a > loop (maybe the loop body is several screens long or whatever). What do > thread dumps look like for this thread? Presumably, this request has a > thread stuck to it which is actually executing code. > > Chuck's suggestion to modify MimeHeaders.createHeader is a good one, > though hacking and recompiling Tomcat isn't my idea of a fun time. > Instead, I'd write a filter that wraps the response with a > HttpServletResponseWrapper whose setHeader/addHeader methods have been > overridden to spit out a timestamp and maybe even a stack trace. I think > you'll be able to find out some good information from that. > > Good luck, > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAklvVLcACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBgyQCgvBSezsoZB64/StEtqeRxX+SI > GloAmQFZai+UtfLqTX5mqEZDYJWmqZAk > =ojk9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
