I read the relase notes for tomcat and tried setting "ulimit -s 2048" in the start script (I restarted the app). I just noticed that when tomcat "hangs" and I can still pull up the default tomcat page if I go the the tomcat server and load the url http://servername:8088.
I am wondering if my problem is not tomcat ? If I can pull up the default page does that indicate the problem is elsewhere ? james