Did you apply Solaris patches before installing JDK 1.3.1 ?
There are several Solaris patches to fix threading problems.
Check the patches tar file which comes with 1.3.1 and then list
installed patches, and see if you are up to date...
Jan
P.S., Of course it can me a zillion other things...
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Thad Humphries wrote:
> We have an application that was built on Tomcat 3.2.3, Apache 1.3.20, and
> RedHat Linux 6.2 and 7.1. It has also been tested on WinNT with IIS 4.0
> and Tomcat 3.2.3 and JRun 3.1. It runs fine in these environments (all
> with JDK 1.3.1).
>
> My problem is with Solaris with Tomcat. I've installed JDK 1.3.1 on
> Solaris 2.7 along with Apache 1.3.20 and Tomcat 3.2.3. About the 3 time I
> access the application, it stalls trying to create a Timer in an object
> that we maintain in our session (the Timer tells the session object to
> periodically clean out things we keep cached in memory).
>
> The session code creation looks like this:
>
> public OasSession (
> OAS pOas )
> {
> oas = pOas;
>
> timer = new Timer ( 60*1000, new ActionListener ()
> {
> public void actionPerformed (
> ActionEvent pEvent )
> {
> OasSession.this.purgeCheck();
> }
> } );
>
> timer.start();
> }
>
> If I comment out the timer code (leaving only the 'oas = pOAS;' it all runs
> fine. Leave it in, and Tomcat just spins--this method never exits.
>
> Interestingly, the application runs fine (without commenting out the code
> above) on the same Sparc box under with WebLogic 6.0 (SP2) and the JDK
> 1.3.0 from BEA.
>
> Any ideas? Is there a problem with threads on the Solaris' 1.3.1 JVM?
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>
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