Hardware is Oracle M5000 running Solaris 10. Database engine is controlled through SMF of Solaris. derby.properties is setup to always append to the log, never truncate. There definitely is not more than one process starting the Network Server.
Here is another tidbit. Even though the log says the Derby engine was shutting down, the process was still alive (prstat showed this) and the SMF log also showed that the Network Server process never terminated. >From a previous capture of the "derby.log", it also appeared this happened on >the Feb 24'th as well, but seemed to recover and continue running. Strange? On an separate thought in case it has to do with an out of memory condition, I was using jvisualvm the other day and monitoring the heap/garbage collection on a test system that tries to mimic this setup (Oracle M3000). I did a heap dump an noticed many objects relating to XA transaction timeout timers. About 600K of these. They seemed to be owned by java.util.TimerTask. I remember seeing some Derby issue updated yesterday or the day before about java.util.TimerTask holding on to some things. I bring this up because recently we added the property to derby.properties to cancel XA transactions if they take to long. We probably do about 6M XA transactions a day and I am wondering if maybe there is some sort of leak here. I will try my setup and look again tomorrow using jvisualvm. I appreciate your thoughts. Brett ________________________________________ From: Mike Matrigali [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Had Derby 10.8.2.2 fail today and need some thoughts Don't know by more info might help. A catch 22 is that usually the top of the derby.log usually has all the environment info that could be useful. Can you list OS, JVM. I/O handling to the log is likely an OS thing. What properties do you have set, any special for error logging? I would likely look first for multiple starts and stops of derby and a setting default for one of them to truncate the derby.log. Maybe leading to multiple processes trying to write to same derby.log. /mikem Bergquist, Brett wrote: > Our customer called and said the server was not working. Before > restarting, I retrieved the derby.log and it seems strange because this > was right at the top of the log: > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Tue Feb 28 15:33:58 EST 2012: Shutting down Derby engine > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Tue Feb 28 15:37:28 EST 2012 Thread[DRDAConnThread_245,5,main] (XID = > 1482003981), (SESSIONID = 133257672), (DATABASE = csemdb), (DRDAID = > ????????.??-4471791624540787385{335696}), Cleanup action starting > > Tue Feb 28 15:37:28 EST 2012 Thread[DRDAConnThread_245,5,main] (XID = > 1482003981), (SESSIONID = 133257672), (DATABASE = csemdb), (DRDAID = > ????????.??-4471791624540787385{335696}), Failed Statement is: null > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > Cleanup action completed > > > > The strange part is “Shutting down Derby engine” is the first thing in > the log. The server was up and running since 2/16/2012 with no > problems with about 60M transactions processed, a backup performed each > night, etc. And then this. > > > > So any thoughts on how the derby.log could be recreated and have this as > the first thing in the log? I am thinking maybe an OutOfMemory > condition but all traces of whatever when wrong are gone, so I am trying > to work backwards and see how the derby.log could be created with this > as the first thing in the log. > > > > Thanks for any help! > > > > Brett > > > > >
