I said I'd give an update in a few weeks about my problem:

Everything seems to work fine now, and I'm pretty sure it's due to
running Tomcat with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5. 

Thanks for the help. Hope this thread is of use to someone else.

Cyrus

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:13, Scott Nichol wrote:
> > > 3. What JDK/JRE are you using, and have you tried any other version?
> > 
> > I'm using j2sdk1.4.1_03. I've heard there were problems between either
> > Tomcat and some recent java versions... is that me? I don't really
> > understand the Apache bug database.
> > 
> 
> The Tomcat release notes mention a Linux problem that seems to be fixed with JDK 
> 1.4.  The notes also say the following 
> 
> >>>>
> GLIBC 2.2 / Linux 2.4 users should also define an environment variable: export 
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
> <<<<
> 
> The notes report no problems with the IBM JDK, which I what I typically use on 
> Linux.  You may want to give that a whirl.
> 
> > > > I have several severs in various cities running Redhat 9, jakarta-tomcat
> > > > 5.0.12 (I get the same problem with 4.1.27) and Apache SOAP 2.3.1. I've
> > > > got them set up to answer a few requests... simple string passings back
> > > > and forth. One of the services runs a few system processes on the remote
> > > > machine, but nothing out of the ordinary. If I shut all 7 of them down
> > > > and restart them carefully, everything will work fine... then a few
> > > > hours or a day later, I'll find out that one of them has frozen. It
> > > > seems completely arbitrary which server it is or why. 
> 
> Is 5.0 still beta?  I can see where problems with 4.1.27 might have encouraged you 
> to go to 5.0, but did you consider downgrading to 4.0.6?  I still run that version 
> for production virtually all development.  It supports the same versions of the 
> servlet/JSP specs as 4.1 and is very stable for me on JDK 1.3.1, 1.4.0 and 1.4.1.
> 
> Scott Nichol
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