Howdy,
Can you reproduce this behavior when running with a profiler?

Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Gibby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:21 PM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: thread dump analysis
>
>My tomcat 4.1.29 instance running J2RE 1.4.1 IBM build
>cxia321411-20030930 on RedHat 9 kernel 2.4.18-14
>keeps gaining processor usage until finally can't answer requests
>successfully.
>
>The machine has a relatively light load.
>
>I did a kill -3 on the process that showed up on top and got a stack
>trace... the problem is I have no idea how to analyze the thread dump
to
>see what is consuming CPU.
>I'm sure something must be spinning its wheels, but I don't know how to
>tell... I can just see that when I run top my tomcat process has 99.9 %
>of the CPU and the load average is 8.00 8.00 8.00
>
>I've fixed problems in the past on a separate java application (not
>tomcat) where I can tell what the problem is in the thread dump because
>a thread waiting to be notified is also the one that has a lock on it
to
>notify the thing that is waiting to notify it... (that didn't make
>sense, I know... but anyway it is basically a circle where it won't
ever
>get woken up.)
>However, in this tomcat case, I can't see anything like that where
>something is waiting in circles... even though I wouldn't rule that
out.
>My experience on reading thread dumps is limited... Anyway, can someone
>who has better experience tell me what is consuming the CPU? Restarting
>tomcat brings the load back down, and it slowly goes up again... like
>over a few days to a weeks time it is back up to 8.00 Load Average.
>
>I won't include the whole file. I trimmed the file down to 1350 lines
by
>getting rid of a lot of 2HPMEMMAPLINE lines and the section titled:
>0SECTION       CL subcomponent dump routine
>but I think that is still too long to post here.
>
>I'm hoping that someone can tell me what to include and what to exclude
>and I'll reply with the appropriate parts of the dump.
>
>Thanks,
>Daniel
>
>NULL
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
>0SECTION       TITLE subcomponent dump routine
>NULL           ===============================
>1TISIGINFO     signal 3 received
>1TIDATETIME    Date:                 2004/02/17 at 08:53:22
>1TIFILENAME    Javacore filename:
>/tmp/javacore.20040217.085322.23429.txt
>NULL
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
>0SECTION       XHPI subcomponent dump routine
>NULL           ==============================
>1HPTIME        Tue Feb 17 08:53:22 2004
>1HPSIGRECV     SIGQUIT received in ?? at (nil) in ??.
>1HPFULLVERSION J2RE 1.4.1 IBM build cxia321411-20030930
>NULL
>1HPOPENV       Operating Environment
>NULL           ---------------------
>2HPHOSTNAME    Host             : somehost.com.(none)
>2HPOSLEVEL     OS Level         : 2.4.18-14.#1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT
2002
>2HPLIBCVER     glibc Version    : 2.2.93
>2HPCPUS        Processors -
>3HPARCH          Architecture     : (not implemented)
>3HPNUMCPUS       How Many         : (not implemented)
>3HPCPUSENABLED   Enabled          : 1
>NULL
>1HPMEMINFO     Memory Info
>NULL           -----------
>2HPMEMLINE             total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:
cached:
>2HPMEMLINE     Mem:  1055625216 1015181312 40443904        0 83464192
>614227968
>2HPMEMLINE     Swap: 1052827648   929792 1051897856
>2HPMEMLINE     MemTotal:      1030884 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     MemFree:         39496 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     MemShared:           0 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     Buffers:         81508 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     Cached:         599596 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     SwapCached:        236 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     Active:         552968 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     Inact_dirty:    344020 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     Inact_clean:     50304 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     Inact_target:   189456 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     HighTotal:      130880 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     HighFree:         1024 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     LowTotal:       900004 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     LowFree:         38472 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     SwapTotal:     1028152 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     SwapFree:      1027244 kB
>2HPMEMLINE     Committed_AS:  1067972 kB
>NULL
>1HPUSERLIMITS  User Limits (in bytes except for NOFILE and NPROC) -
>NULL           -----------
>2HPUSERLIMIT   RLIMIT_FSIZE   : infinity
>2HPUSERLIMIT   RLIMIT_DATA    : infinity
>2HPUSERLIMIT   RLIMIT_STACK   : 2093056
>2HPUSERLIMIT   RLIMIT_CORE    : 0
>2HPUSERLIMIT   RLIMIT_NOFILE  : 1024
>2HPUSERLIMIT   RLIMIT_NPROC   : 7168
>NULL
>1HPSIGHANDLERS JVM Signal Handlers
>NULL           -------------------
>2HPSIGHANDLER  HUP            : unknown handler
>2HPSIGHANDLER  INT            : unknown handler
>2HPSIGHANDLER  QUIT           : unknown handler
>2HPSIGHANDLER  ILL            : unknown handler
>2HPSIGHANDLER  TRAP           : unknown handler
>2HPSIGHANDLER  ABRT           : unknown handler
>2HPSIGHANDLER  FPE            : unknown handler
>2HPSIGHANDLER  KILL           : default handler
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