Hi,
I'm using Tomcat 6.0.29. I have two identical apps running at the same time. I mean, they use exactly the same WAR, but each one runs in a different web domain. When I stop/redeploy one of the apps, very often I get the famous leak problem, because of the webclassloader not being able to get collected by the garbage collector. etc etc etc. I'm placing all my library JARs in a common directory (../tomcat/shared/lib), and I set the catalina.properties file so Catalina knows this directory exists. Why did I do that? For two reasons: 1- uploading a WAR without all the support JARs is faster than with them, and I'm uploading my WARs very often, because I'm changing my app constantly. 2- I THOUGHT/THINK that placing the JARs in the same shared directory is better, because it takes less memory, and because after all there must be a reason why the shared directory option existed by default (at least until Tomcat 6.0.14 came out). And given that my two apps use exactly the same WAR, it made sense to me to place the JARs in the shared dir. Now I have read that this issue may be the reason of my problem with leaks. Something like this "for each app, the webapploader pretendes to unload all the classes, and if they are shared it is not possible and then the leak happens". Is that true? Should I avoid using the shared lib directory? If so, for what was this option created for? Thanks, Brian
