On 13 Apr 2012, at 09:09, "Miguel González Castaños"
<miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>  A server that I manage has a Struts webapp with a Tomcat 5.5.x standalone 
> server. No JMX or whatsoever has been configured.
>
>  The app sends massive emails to users with some info that requires users to 
> log on the webapp and fill in some forms. It seems (without any logs or 
> metrics) that people tend to fill the forms right away after they got the 
> emails and together with the mailing process (that requires DB use to get 
> email addresses) is exhausting the maxthreads connections (300 as of 
> yesterday which I have increased to 400).

How many emails does it send?

>  I assume it's not going to be easy to determine what is the cause of the 
> issue but which tools can I use?

It might just be simple maths. If you send more than 400 emails and
most of those people immediately respond, what would you expect to
happen?


>  I guess I need to log in some way how the server is behaving. Maybe enabling 
> JMX or Javamelody? Any way of getting where the webapp is hanged or where in 
> the code of the webapp is hanging?

Access log?
Enable JMX, use VisualVM/JConsole.


>  And which tool can help me to simulate the load of so many people connecting 
> to the webapp remotely?

JMeter.


p


>
>  Regards,
>
>  Miguel
>
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