Thanks for your feedback...
Geoff Smith wrote:
>
> This may well not be your problem but....
>
> I had similar symtoms once. It turned out to be a bad database
> connection pool implementation. After an hour or so the database
> would drop inactive connections but the cache of connections in the
> pool were 'unaware'. So the first N attempts failed until the
> pool was re-initialized.
>
> Regards
> Geoff
>
> Greg Barish wrote:
> >
> > Hi -
> >
> > I have a few servlets which handle POST requests via the doPost
> > handler. Usually, the system is fine. I can POST and get back
> > the responses I expect.
> >
> > Sometimes - usually after a few hours of inactivity - clients
> > requesting to execute that POST are returned HTTP 500 errors. This
> > happens for the next 4 or so attempted connections, all of those
> > connections finishing after 300 ms from the first attempted connection.
> >
> > To be more clear, I have an automated client program which issues
> > several POSTs in succession. Usually, the client and Apache+JServ work
> > fine, but after a few hours of inactivity, the next batch of client
> > requests will have at least 4 of those requests recieve HTTP 500 errors
> > from Apache. The rest of the connections after that are fine - almost
> > like Apache (or JServ) "warmed up".
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?
> >
> > So, I'm not sure if the problem is with:
> > * Apache
> > or
> > * JServ availability (and Apache not being able to find it
> > results in HTTP 500s)
> >
> > I noticed that there was an earlier bug report having to do with
> > lockups with concurrent requests on Apache 1.3.4, but that was the
> > closest thing I saw.
> >
> > I am running:
> > - Apache 1.3.4,
> > - JServ 1.0b2
> > - WinNT 4.0 Wkstn Svc Pk 4
> >
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