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
(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 the memTest suggested by Peter... after six tests, it still shows all

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

Re: JVM goes away

2010-01-12 Thread Carl
-plus.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:41 AM Subject: Re: JVM goes away On 12/01/2010 01:30, Carl wrote: Aha, for some reason, I thought perm gen was included in the general heap so the maximum for the two combined was constrained by the 2400m I had defined for the heap. Somewhere around 2:00AM (I

Re: JVM goes away

2010-01-12 Thread Carl
constrained perm gen, etc.) Thanks, Carl - Original Message - From: Pid p...@pidster.com To: Carl c...@etrak-plus.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:41 AM Subject: Re: JVM goes away On 12/01/2010 01:30, Carl wrote: Aha, for some reason, I thought perm gen was included

JVM goes away

2010-01-11 Thread Carl
for only several hours. Initially, I thought the problem was the turbo or hyperthreading but, no, the problem persists. When the JVM goes away, the memory that it held is still being held (as seen from top) but it is nowhere near the machine physical memory. The application has been running

Re: JVM goes away

2010-01-11 Thread Andy Wang
) or to the console, the JVM will just go away, disappear. Sometimes, the system will run for a week, sometimes for only several hours. Initially, I thought the problem was the turbo or hyperthreading but, no, the problem persists. When the JVM goes away, the memory that it held is still being

Re: JVM goes away

2010-01-11 Thread Peter Crowther
, the system will run for a week, sometimes for only several hours.  Initially, I thought the problem was the turbo or hyperthreading but, no, the problem persists. When the JVM goes away, the memory that it held is still being held (as seen from top) but it is nowhere near the machine

Re: JVM goes away

2010-01-11 Thread Carl
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 6:06 PM Subject: Re: JVM goes away 2010/1/11 Carl c...@etrak-plus.com: 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

Re: JVM goes away

2010-01-11 Thread Andy Wang
(gonna be a long one.) Any ideas are welcome. Thanks, Carl - Original Message - From: Peter Crowther peter.crowt...@melandra.com To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 6:06 PM Subject: Re: JVM goes away 2010/1/11 Carl c...@etrak-plus.com

Re: JVM goes away

2010-01-11 Thread Carl
, Carl - Original Message - From: Andy Wang aw...@ptc.com To: users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 6:42 PM Subject: Re: JVM goes away I assume $GB means 4GB :) With that kind of memory use it doesn't sound entirely like the OOM killer. Have you looked around

Re: JVM goes away

2010-01-11 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2010/1/12 Carl c...@etrak-plus.com: Peter and Andy, Thanks for your quick responses. Memory:  Physical - $GB               Used - 2.4GB to 3.0 GB (according to top... have never seen it above 3GB)               Swap - 19GB, none ever used (or, at least I have never seen any used.) The

Re: JVM goes away

2010-01-11 Thread Carl
Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:31 PM Subject: Re: JVM goes away 2010/1/12 Carl c...@etrak-plus.com: Peter and Andy, Thanks for your quick responses. Memory: Physical - $GB Used - 2.4GB to 3.0 GB (according to top... have never seen it above 3GB) Swap - 19GB

Re: JVM goes away

2010-01-11 Thread Pid
go away, disappear. Sometimes, the system will run for a week, sometimes for only several hours. Initially, I thought the problem was the turbo or hyperthreading but, no, the problem persists. When the JVM goes away, the memory that it held is still being held (as seen from top

Re: JVM goes away

2010-01-11 Thread Carl
Subject: Re: JVM goes away On 11/01/2010 23:06, Peter Crowther wrote: 2010/1/11 Carlc...@etrak-plus.com: 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