Hello,
On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 11:45 +0200, Jeff MAURY wrote:
> That what I guessed but I don't understand everything.
> The code you are referencing is related to NTPipes and not sockets.
I'm not a C expert, but my bet is that the file name is misleading.
Indeed, the
con->sa.bInheritHandle = TRUE;
statement appears in the definition driven by the following macro
expansion:
TCN_IMPLEMENT_CALL(jlong, Local, create)(TCN_STDARGS, jstring name,
jlong pool)
And when the macro call TCN_IMPLEMENT_CALL(jlong, Local, create) is
preprocessed, it gives:
JNIEXPORT RT JNICALL Java_org_apache_tomcat_jni_##Local##_##create
, thus the bInheritHandle = TRUE statement is defined in the following
function signature:
JNIEXPORT RT JNICALL
Java_org_apache_tomcat_jni_##Local##_##create(TCN_STDARGS, jstring name,
jlong pool)
which is a function called by JNDI, and as I guess, by class
org.apache.tomcat.ini.Local, method create() :
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/native/branches/1.1.x/java/org/apache/tomcat/jni/Local.java
And the javadoc for class Local is: "Local socket"
And for methode create :
/**
* Create a socket.
* @param path The address of the new socket.
* @param cont The parent pool to use
* @return The new socket that has been set up.
*/
It seems like the native code uses a pool, and my bet is that the pool
is responsible for trying to reuse the socket.
And something like this may happen: the socket handle, inherited by the
child process, puts the socket in such a state that the pool either
can't, either doesn't want to reuse it.
And then what happens is that on the other side of the socket, the
client continues to write HTTP requests, and nobody is listening.
And then when the Tomcat's child process is killed, the socket is
finally closed somehow, the client browser notices it and creates a new
connection to the server and retries the HTTP request.
Does that make sense ?
> So I'm
> not familiar with Tomcat Native implementation, but do you know the global
> architecture ?
> What I guessed is that the Tomcat native stuff created with the inherit
> flag, but even if it does, I don't see why it should not work if the socket
> is closed after a timeout.
>
> Regards
> Jeff
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Laurent Petit <lpe...@yseop.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Jeff, Konstantin & all,
> >
> > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 20:52 +0200, verlag.preis...@t-online.de wrote:
> > > Hello Jeff & all,
> > >
> > > > Von: Jeff MAURY <jeffma...@jeffmaury.com>
> > > > Datum: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:46:02 +0200
> > >
> > > > Konstantin,
> > > >
> > > > your explanations are very interesting but unclear to me: what do you
> > > > call the inactivity timer ? When it is started ? After the request has
> > > > been processed by the servlet ? In that case, I see no difference
> > > > between a servlet that launch a process and another one.
> > > > It seems to me that a process that is launched does not inhererits
> > > > handles from its parent process but it's possible that under Windows,
> > > > it's an option so it would be interesting to watch.
> > > >
> > > > Jeff
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sorry, I'm just a normal Tomcat user, and I don't know how exactly the
> > APR connector and its Timeout works, so I am unable to answer that.
> > >
> > >
> > > Howewer, I did some further observations:
> > >
> > > -When I perform a request to the servlet that opens wordpad.exe, the TCP
> > connection from Tomcat does not close after the timeout - even when I kill
> > the Tomcat process (java.exe), the TCP connection is still open. If I kill
> > wordpad.exe, then finally the connection is closed/aborted.
> > > -When I have 1 TCP connection open to Tomcat and the servlet starts the
> > little C program, Task manager shows that it has 11 handles.
> > > However, when I have 5 TCP connections open to Tomcat, and do the
> > request on one of them, Task maanger shows that the C program has 15
> > handles - so four more handles when there are four more connections to
> > Tomcat. All of that 5 TCP connections don't close until I kill that process.
> > >
> > > That seems to me to be an indication that socket handles could be
> > inherited by the child processes that are startet by ProcessBuilder from
> > tomcat.
> > >
> > > A msdn article mentions how to create a new process using
> > CreateProcess(); it also mentions that socket handles can be inherited:
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724466.aspx
> > >
> > > However, as I don't have much knowledge about programming with WinAPIs,
> > I don't know why those handles are inherited (the MSDN article mentions
> > that a handle must be specified as inheritable when created, to allow a
> > child process to inherit it). Maybe someone with more WinAPI/Tomcat Native
> > knowledge can help here.
> >
> >
> > I also had the vague intuition that this related to handles inheritence.
> > Your recent tests & research tend to make this hypothesis even more
> > appealing.
> >
> > I know nothing about tomcat-native implementation, but I was able to see
> > that the bInheritHandle member is set to true here in tomcat native's C
> > code:
> >
> > lpetit:~/tmp/tomcat-native $ grep "bInheritHandle" -R *
> > native/os/win32/ntpipe.c: con->sa.bInheritHandle = TRUE;
> >
> > (
> >
> > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/native/branches/1.1.x/native/os/win32/ntpipe.c)
> >
> >
> > Jeff,
> >
> > What else could we do to help investigate / fix this issue ?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Laurent
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Konstantin Preißer
> > >
> > >
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