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Try lowering the Connection timeout on your webserver and monitor how saturated it is.
Sounds like it is the webserver.
Pete Fournier
----Original Message-----
>From: Ross Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subj: Re: Connection reset by peer... Me, too!
>Reply To: "A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java
Servlet API Technology." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:29 AM
>
>Folks,
>
>This is a shot in the dark as I am not one of the developers working
>directly on the issue, thus I don't have the details I know you'd need to
>make serious code-level recommendations. However, this is so significant to
>our company's future that I figured it was worth risking a blindfolded
>exchange of gunfire in a room full of Java developers. :-)
>
>I guess I'm really just trolling to see if anyone has seen anything
>similar... and hopefully how they fixed it.
>
>My company is an application service provider of eCRM and customer service
>software. We use servlets and supporting classes server-side and applets
>client-side (for both customer service agents and customers). Our production
>environments are getting a little long in the tooth, namely JRun 2.3 and JDK
>1.2.2 with Oracle 8.1.7 on the back-end.
>
>The problem is that under extremely heavy load, connections between the
>applet clients and the servers are dropping en masse. Our company is
>currently experiencing wonderful growth (we handled over two million managed
>chats last month, for example), but as you can imagine this issue seriously
>undermines our future potential.
>
>Thanks for whatever advice or even comiseration you can provide. :-)
>
>== Ross ==
>
>
>I just noticed Suresh's post and I am inclined to believe that we are
>experiencing similar difficulties, therefore I put this message in the same
>thread.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet
>API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
>Suresh Addagalla
>Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 11:00 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Connection reset by peer
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I am using JRun 3.0 with iPlanet 4.1 on HP-UX. It's a pure servlet based
>application. I am simulating a high load on the web application. Beyond a
>threshold load (of 1200 users), I am getting the following 'Connection reset
>by peer' error in the default-event.log, due to which I am getting 503
>result codes at the client.
>
>The maximum simultaneous requests configured in iPlanet is 2500, which is
>sufficient. Please let me know what could be the cause of the error. The
>JRun min, active, max threads are 100, 200, 2000 respectively.
>
>02/01 11:06:48 error (jcp) Connection reset by peer: Connection reset by
>peer [java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: Connection reset
>by peer]
>java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: Connection reset by peer
> at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead(Native Method)
> at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
> at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(Unknown Source)
> at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(Unknown Source)
> at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
> at allaire.jrun.jrpp.ProxyEndpoint.readFully(ProxyEndpoint.java:310)
> at allaire.jrun.jrpp.ProxyEndpoint.readFully(ProxyEndpoint.java:302)
> at allaire.jrun.jrpp.ProxyEndpoint.readInt(ProxyEndpoint.java:320)
> at
>allaire.jrun.jrpp.ProxyEndpoint.readRequest(ProxyEndpoint.java:188)
> at allaire.jrun.jrpp.ProxyService.swapRunnable(ProxyService.java:48)
> at allaire.jrun.ThreadPool.swapRunnable(ThreadPool.java:223)
> at allaire.jrun.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:77)
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Suresh
>
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