Hi,

We're experiencing Tomcat crashes during stresstesting of a webapplication. 

Situation: Tomcat runs as a Windows service.  During stresstests the 
Tomcat-services suddenly ends "unexpectedly".  The Windows eventlog logs states 
something like: "...service ended unexpectedly..."  The problem is not easily 
or consistently reproducable...

When I look at all the logs of Tomcat and of our webapplication, no mention of 
an exception or error or crash whatsoever !(?)  (They all just stop abruptly)

First I thought it was an OutOfMemoryError problem.  I forced an 
OutOfMemoryError myself by limiting the memory of the JVM of Tomcat severely.  
But then I could see loggings of an OutOfMemoryError in the Tomcat stderr-log, 
which is not what I expected because I didn't expect any loggings of a crash at 
all...

The problem only *seems* to occur when the servermachine is completely left 
alone (not logged in or locked)  Additionally, it usually occurs after between 
30-70 minutes or so.  When I keep monitoring the machine while the same tests 
are running the crash doesn't seem to occur ?!  Could it be a power-saving 
issue, like e.g. with the network-adaptor ?  Then I would not expect a crash, 
but a stacktrace ?

I tried adding a try-catch(Throwable) around a method where everything starts 
(the process method of my Struts ActionServlet). I've been trying to reproduce 
the problem since, but as I mentioned, it's not consistently reproducable...

I've searched the net trying to find related problems, or a JVM problem of some 
kind with this version, haven't been successful though...  If it is a problem 
with bad memory, I would expect to see different behaviour, like more random 
crashes, not only of the Tomcat service... 

Environment: Tomcat 4.1.29, JDK 1.4.2_03, Windows 2000ProSP4, bi-processor Xeon 
machine.

Any help/advice/ideas is really welcome and appreciated !

Kind regards,

David

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