Kari Scott wrote:



On Dec 6, 2011, at 2:25 PM, André Warnier wrote:

Kari Scott wrote:
We are running Tomcat 6. 0.32 with jdk1.6.0_26 on Solaris 10, mod_ajp 1.3  and 
Apache 2.2.21 on all but one production server which is the same except for 
it's running Tomcat 7.0.21.
I have some questions regarding connection timeout settings. Occasionally, when 
the site is busier we see jumps in the number of connections to 8009 and then 
that number stays high for about 30 minutes before settling back down into our 
average range. A thread dump shows that these connections correspond to these 
socket threads:
"TP-Processor222" daemon prio=3 tid=0x00c76400 nid=0x5669 runnable [0x8cf7f000]
  java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
       at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
       at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
       at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:218)
       at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(BufferedInputStream.java:258)
       at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:317)
       - locked <0xcb2a0eb0> (a java.io.BufferedInputStream)
       at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.read(ChannelSocket.java:628)
       at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.receive(ChannelSocket.java:566)
       at 
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:693)
       at 
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:898)
       at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:690)
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
The problem isn't so much that they stick around, but when these first start 
increasing, there is a noticeable hit in performance and evidence that threads 
are waiting for resources. Oddly, the one trial Tomcat 7 server with the same 
connector, load and code never experiences this problem. We currently don't 
have a connectionTimeout specified for our connector so my plan is to try the 
following:
  <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" connectionTimeout="20000" 
redirectPort="8443" />
Here are my questions:
*Do I also need to set the connection_pool_timeout in the worker? Or is that 
the one I should be changing instead of connectionTimeout?
*Is there a different time out setting I should be looking at?
*Is there an easy explanation as to why Tomcat 7 never experiences this issue? 
I'm just wondering (o.k. hoping) that there is some magic Tomcat 7 default 
setting some place that we can add to our Tomcat 6 environments that can help 
us out until we've upgraded everything.
Just a question, to add to your excellent summary above : in your front-end 
server configuration, what are the settings related to keep-alive ?



All the servers have the following Apache settings:
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 200
KeepAliveTimeout 15


So, what happens if you set

KeepAliveTimeout 3

?



And maybe, can you provide an example of the server.xml (comments and sensitive 
info removed) for both a server which experiences the issue, and for the 7.0 
server which doesn't ? (paste them inside the message, the list strips most 
attachments).



I sure can. I also removed some of the entries that were exactly the same so it's easier to see the differences:
*********************************************************************************
Tomcat 7 server.xml:

<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
  <Service name="Catalina">
    <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />
    <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">

      <Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
            unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="false">

        <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" 
directory="logs"
               prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
               pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b" resolveHosts="false"/>

      </Host>
    </Engine>
  </Service>
</Server>


Tomcat 6 server.xml:

<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
  <Service name="Catalina">
    <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />
    <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">

        <Valve className="com.jamonapi.http.JAMonTomcatValve"/>

      <Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
            unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="false"
            xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
      </Host>
    </Engine>
  </Service>
</Server>

*********************************************************************************

So the big difference is the presence of the JaMON Valve we're using on Tomcat 
6 and but accidentally forgot to put on Tomcat 7. Maybe this was a fortuitous 
mistake. I'll try removing it from one of our Tomcat 6 servers to see if that's 
the culprit. We don't need that access logging valve enabled on Tomcat 7 
either, so this was a really good exercise to go through. Thanks!



-kari




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