Tomcat itself doesn't leak any memory as far as our systems
indicate. One thing to look at might be session usage - has the orginial
developer made the session never timeout (which means that the memory used
in it will never be recollected) or jave exceptionally long timeouts? Also,
since you can't connect to the database, I would look at that portion of the
code, possibly keeping connections open until you use all the database
server/license supports?
As you probably know, you need to look at objects that grow without
being garbage collected (static variables are often times problems,
especially Collections (maps, lists, etc)) as well as keeping open IO
streams with very large buffers and not flushing them at points of
inactivity.
Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Wintschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 2:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError... O happy day.
>
>
> Hey there.
>
> I just took over a project that is running on Solaris 2.6 and
> an Apache
> 1.3.12/Tomcat 3.2.1 install.
>
> After about three days of the server being up, it slows to a
> crawl and dies
> a wonderful death spewing forth Internal Server Errors and a wonderful
> inability to connect to any databases. (Namely repeated
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError's)
>
> I am wondering if there are any known issues of memory leaks in this
> distribution of Tomcat, or if my most probable solution to
> the problem would
> be to read through all of the previous developers code to
> find out where it
> sucks and needs to get fixed.
>
> The Frustrated Code Maintainer.
> -daniel
>
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