I have this weird problem with an instance of tomcat 4.1.30 running on Windows Server 2003. Tomcat output (log messages) is directed into CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out. Every 4 hours a little log rotation script runs while tomcat is active. It zips catalina.out into an archived logs folder and then truncates it. All this seems to work ok and you end up with a small 1KB file.
The problem is that the next log entry to catalina.out (from the next request) is preceded by around 9MB of white space! After heaving this load it settles down and writes log messages normally. Until the next rotation that is. Then the same thing happens. At the first http request to the server after catalina.out is trucated, boom, around 9 more MB of white space is dumped into it. Not the exact same amount as before. Actually, the amount has been going on for several months and the actual amount of white space spew has been increasing. It started out around 4MB. Has anyone seen this or something similar? I don't see this behavior on Linux servers. The same script works fine. I feel I should also mention that this server is configured to reply to SSL (https:) requests although I'm not sure this is relevant info. -Tom Cervenka
