Hi! Tomcat on my ubuntu 8.04 (x64) server starts too slow.
I tried both bundled ubuntu version (tomcat 5.5.25) and newer tomcat 6.0.29. The start time does not depend on application installed - even empty tomcat distribution starts slow. I googled that problem is somehow related to random generator - but I disabled all SSL - and nothing changed. The most of the time consumes Catalina initialization. It lasts more than three minutes. The following lines from catalina.out log near time gap (turned on finest log level) [catalina.out] .... 10.08.2010 11:27:00 org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase addChildInternal FINE: Add child StandardHost[localhost] StandardEngine[Catalina] 10.08.2010 11:27:00 org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector initialize FINE: Creating name for connect Catalina:type=Connector,port=7080 10.08.2010 11:30:09 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-7080 10.08.2010 11:30:09 org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector initialize FINE: Creating name for connector Catalina:type=Connector,port=7009 10.08.2010 11:30:09 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO: Initialization processed in 189344 ms .... Sending QUIT to java does not produces dump of hanging thread - even after that soft 'killing' - tomcat continue to start.
