I have a Spring based application that is running in Tomcat 5.5.12. Tomcat
is integrated with Apache. Apache host JavaScript client side code that
makes Http asynchronous calls to the Spring based application. I'm getting
an error reported from Apache as follows:
Too many open files: apr_accept: (client socket)
There is speculation that the resources being used in the Spring based app.
are not being properly cleaned up. More specifically, the HttpServletRequest
and HttpServletResponse objects are leaving streams and sockets open on the
Apache server. Should I be explicitly closing streams and sockets of the
HttpServletRequest and HttpServletReponse objects? If so, how would this be
done? Or does tomcat handle this?
Here's an example of what is currently is done.
public class Something implements Controller {
public ModelAndView handleRequest(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
//read something from request
doSomething();
return null;
}
}
