I have had this exact problem before. Turns out I had a memory leak.
ben
Gerald Gutierrez wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm doing some testing with Orion 1.3.8 (higher versions have bugs that
> make it unusable for me right now) on Linux 2.2.14 and JDK1.3.01 with the
> Hotspot server VM. I have three applications running, two purely with CMP
> EBs and one with BMP EBs.
>
> Practically every time I have the server up for more than a couple hours,
> and when I put load on the system, the thing starts spawning threads like
> mad (one time ps aux told me there were *260* java processes = threads).
> Almost all of them would take no CPU time, but several (one usually, maybe
> a couple) of them would just suck up the processor completely (a 300MHz
> AMD-K6 with 256MB RAM).
>
> Eventually, it just stops accepting connections and nothing works. The java
> processes are still many in number and a couple sucking up all the CPU.
>
> Is this a known issue? I've heard that Orion is "unstable" on Linux, but
> nothing like this.
>
> I'd appreciate any comments anyone has about this.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gerald.
