Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-14 Thread Carl
@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:26 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away) Peter Crowther wrote: 2010/1/13 David kerber dcker...@verizon.net: Make sure you let it run for quite a while. I've had memory failures show up as late as 11 passes into a test run

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-14 Thread David kerber
. Probably call Dell this morning. TIA, Carl - Original Message - From: David Kerber dcker...@verizon.net To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:26 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away) Peter Crowther wrote: 2010/1/13 David

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Crowther
2010/1/14 David kerber dcker...@verizon.net: Memtest86, which I believe is the same one Peter suggested (or at least a variation of it).  It just loops continuously until stopped. I suggested memtest86+ (http://www.memtest.org/). Memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/) is also available; I moved

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-14 Thread Carl
: Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:48 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away) Memtest86, which I believe is the same one Peter suggested (or at least a variation of it). It just loops continuously until stopped. Carl wrote: David, What do you use for your mem testing? I am using

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-14 Thread Pid
memory is OK. Probably call Dell this morning. TIA, Carl - Original Message - From: David Kerber dcker...@verizon.net To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:26 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away) Peter Crowther wrote: 2010/1

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-14 Thread Carl
it had a problem. Thanks, Carl - Original Message - From: Pid p...@pidster.com To: users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:55 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away) On 14/01/2010 14:36, Carl wrote: David, I am such a dufuss... didn't even notice

Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread Carl
From the original posting: This is a new server, a Dell T110 with a Xeon 3440 processor and 4GB memory. I have turned off both the turbo mode and hyperthreading. The environment: 64 bit Slackware Linux java version 1.6.0_17 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_17-b04) Java

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread Peter Crowther
Very difficult to know what the problem is. One thing you can now do (as you've switched to another production server) is to run a memory test across the bad server. A T110 doesn't use error-correcting memory, as I recall, so a dodgy bit could cause problems. Give it a couple of hours with

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread Paolo Santarsiero
In order to monitor java memory at chrash time you can add to JAVA_OPTS these directives -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/your/tomcat/folder/memorydump.hprof In this way, if tomcat goes in out of memory, you have an image of memory (memorydump.hprof) that you can analyze by an

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread Carl
In process... thanks for the suggestion. Carl - Original Message - From: Peter Crowther peter.crowt...@melandra.com To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:49 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away) Very difficult to know

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread Carl
, January 13, 2010 8:58 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away) In order to monitor java memory at chrash time you can add to JAVA_OPTS these directives -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/your/tomcat/folder/memorydump.hprof In this way, if tomcat goes in out

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, On 1/13/2010 8:49 AM, Peter Crowther wrote: Very difficult to know what the problem is. One thing you can now do (as you've switched to another production server) is to run a memory test across the bad server. Usually, I would agree that

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread Peter Crowther
2010/1/13 Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net: On 1/13/2010 8:49 AM, Peter Crowther wrote: Very difficult to know what the problem is.  One thing you can now do (as you've switched to another production server) is to run a memory test across the bad server. Usually, I would

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread Carl
, January 13, 2010 11:50 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, On 1/13/2010 8:49 AM, Peter Crowther wrote: Very difficult to know what the problem is. One thing you can now do (as you've switched to another production

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread Carl
Peter, The memTest is still running but clean so far. Thanks, Carl - Original Message - From: Peter Crowther peter.crowt...@melandra.com To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:00 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread David kerber
Carl wrote: Peter, The memTest is still running but clean so far. Make sure you let it run for quite a while. I've had memory failures show up as late as 11 passes into a test run. D - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread Carl
David, Will do... thanks for the heads up. Carl - Original Message - From: David kerber dcker...@verizon.net To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:17 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away) Carl wrote: Peter

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread Peter Crowther
2010/1/13 David kerber dcker...@verizon.net: Make sure you let it run for quite a while.  I've had memory failures show up as late as 11 passes into a test run. That's dedication - I usually end up stopping it after a couple of runs. Thanks David, I've learned something! - Peter

Re: Tomcat dies suddenly (was JVM goes away)

2010-01-13 Thread David Kerber
Peter Crowther wrote: 2010/1/13 David kerber dcker...@verizon.net: Make sure you let it run for quite a while. I've had memory failures show up as late as 11 passes into a test run. That's dedication - I usually end up stopping it after a couple of runs. Thanks David, I've learned