I experienced similar behavior when my number of concurrent
threads exceeded MAX_THREADS server.xml during load testing.
Others have mentioned similar problems on this list.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Coskren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 11:46 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Twele, Charles G
> Subject: Re: System hangs after 2-3 hours of use
>
>
>
> On Monday, July 23, 2001, at 02:33 PM, Twele, Charles G wrote:
>
> > My Tomcat 3.1 application hangs after a while. However, if
> I restart
> > Tomcat
> > again all goes well for some time i.e. 2 to 3 hours and
> then it goes
> > down
> > again. I am using Apache 1.3.12 and Tomcat 3.1 on Win NT
> >
> > Anyone encountered this problem with Tomcat?
>
> I would take a look at possible resource leaks in your code. In one
> case, I saw this problem when we had a function that was opening file
> descriptors each time a servlet was called, but wasn't
> closing them. It
> wasn't long before we hit the OS limit on open file descriptors, and
> whammo. Given time, the problem would clear up as the file
> pointers got
> garbage collected (closing the files as they went), but that didn't
> happen fast enough to avoid the problem.
>
> Database connections could pose a similar problem, depending on what
> you're using.
>
> -Patrick
>
> ------------------------
> Patrick Coskren Speaking only for myself...
> Senior Web Developer
> United Media. <http://www.comics.com>
