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Jordan,

On 2/15/2010 6:24 PM, Jordan Michaels wrote:
> The client got in touch with us today stating that the entire site was
> now unresponsive. We reviewed the log files and miraculously this time
> there WAS an error message (lots of them).
> 
> The error was as follows:
> -----------
> SEVERE: Error allocating socket processor
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread

That'll do it.

> So, looking at my setenv.sh values, it turns out that Xss256m is
> extremely massive.

Hah, yeah. I didn't notice that on first reading.

> I reduced the
> value to 512k, and things are now working beautifully.

I would leave the stack size to the default, unless you see a need to
increase it.

You might also want to review your nominal thread count in the JVM: it's
possible that you are getting close to the limit of threads for a
process in your environment.

> I can only guess at why there were no logs when this happened previously
> (maybe no memory left to spawn a new logging thread? no idea...), but
> the page that was hanging now runs very quickly even when I hammer my
> refresh button on it. =D

Try ApacheBench... it's a much better hammer.

Good luck,
- -chris
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