While load testing our clustered Tomcats, we are seeing the following stack trace in our catalina.out occasionally, but not regularly:
Jul 16, 2010 3:34:49 PM org.apache.catalina.ha.session.DeltaManager messageReceived SEVERE: Manager [localhost#/urs]: Unable to receive message through TCP channel java.lang.IllegalStateException: removeAttribute: Session already invalidated at org.apache.catalina.ha.session.DeltaSession.removeAttribute(DeltaSession.jav a:557) at org.apache.catalina.ha.session.DeltaRequest.execute(DeltaRequest.java:167) at org.apache.catalina.ha.session.DeltaManager.handleSESSION_DELTA(DeltaManager .java:1403) at org.apache.catalina.ha.session.DeltaManager.messageReceived(DeltaManager.jav a:1357) at org.apache.catalina.ha.session.DeltaManager.messageDataReceived(DeltaManager .java:1093) at org.apache.catalina.ha.session.ClusterSessionListener.messageReceived(Cluste rSessionListener.java:87) at org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster.messageReceived(SimpleTcpCluster .java:901) at org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster.messageReceived(SimpleTcpCluster .java:882) at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.GroupChannel.messageReceived(GroupChannel.j ava:269) at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.ChannelInterceptorBase.messageReceived(Chan nelInterceptorBase.java:79) at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.interceptors.TcpFailureDetector.messageRece ived(TcpFailureDetector.java:110) at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.ChannelInterceptorBase.messageReceived(Chan nelInterceptorBase.java:79) at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.ChannelInterceptorBase.messageReceived(Chan nelInterceptorBase.java:79) at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.ChannelCoordinator.messageReceived(ChannelC oordinator.java:241) at org.apache.catalina.tribes.transport.ReceiverBase.messageDataReceived(Receiv erBase.java:225) at org.apache.catalina.tribes.transport.nio.NioReplicationTask.drainChannel(Nio ReplicationTask.java:188) at org.apache.catalina.tribes.transport.nio.NioReplicationTask.run(NioReplicati onTask.java:91) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.ja va:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:9 08) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Under what conditions would this occur? Could it be that a session diff is being transmitted, but the session it relates to has been invalidated by the time the diff is processed (via a user logout for example)? Or could it be that a timeout has been reached??? Here is our session replication settings: <Cluster className="org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster" channelSendOptions="8"> <Manager className="org.apache.catalina.ha.session.DeltaManager" stateTransferTimeout="10" expireSessionsOnShutdown="false" notifyListenersOnReplication="true"/> <Channel className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.GroupChannel"> <Membership className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.membership.McastService" address="[IP redaxed]" domain="BERT-DEV" port="45564" frequency="500" dropTime="3000"/> <Receiver className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.transport.nio.NioReceiver" address="${ClusterIP}" port="4000" autoBind="100" selectorTimeout="5000" maxThreads="6"/> <Sender className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.transport.ReplicationTransmitter"> <Transport className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.transport.nio.PooledParallelSender"/> </Sender> <Interceptor className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.interceptors.TcpFailureDetector" /> <Interceptor className="org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.interceptors.MessageDispatch15In terceptor"/> </Channel> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.ReplicationValve" filter=""/> <ClusterListener className="org.apache.catalina.ha.session.ClusterSessionListener"/> </Cluster> Thanks, Matt.