Is there a database listener installed? and
is it listening on the right port?
do you have the correct connection string?
do you have the correct driver (DB version) (JDBC version) installed?
M-
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From: "tc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: Tomcat App becomes Unresponsive
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> > Tc,
> >
> > tc wrote:
> > | The developers think there may some issue with the database. They
have
> > | also done multi-user testing without being able to reproduce the
> > problem.
> >
> > If they think it's the database, it's probably their code interacting
> > with the database. MySQL is pretty stable, although I have had some
> > legitimate problems with it in the past.
> >
> > The most likely problem is that you have code that is not properly
> > cleaning up after JDBC calls.
> >
> > Are you using a connection pool? If so, which one?
> >
> > You need to make sure that you call "close" on /everything/ when you're
> > done with your Connection, Statement (and subclass), and ResultSet (and
> > subclass) objects. Check to make sure that those close calls are done in
> > "finally" blocks, and that a failure to close a ResultSet does not cause
> > an exception to be thrown that avoids the Connection close.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > Connection conn = getConnection();
> >
> > PreparedStatement ps = conn.prepareStatement("SELECT 1");
> >
> > ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery();
> >
> > ...
> >
> > rs.close();
> > ps.close();
> > conn.close();
> >
> > return null;
> >
> > This is not good. What you really need is this:
> >
> > Connection conn = null;
> > PreparedStatement ps = null;
> > ResultSet rs = null;
> >
> > try
> > {
> > ~ conn = getConnection();
> > ~ ps = ...;
> > ~ rs = ...;
> >
> > ~ ...
> > }
> > finally
> > {
> > ~ if(null != rs)
> > ~ try { rs.close(); } catch (SQLException sqle) { /* log */ }
> > ~ if(null != ps)
> > ~ try { ps.close(); } catch (SQLException sqle) { /* log */ }
> > ~ if(null != conn)
> > ~ try { conn.close(); } catch (SQLException sqle) { /* log */ }
> > }
> >
> > Note how all the cleanup is done in the finally block (so the cleanup
> > code will run even during an exception situation), and that each "close"
> > is called in its own try/catch block: this prevents the failure to close
> > the (e.g.) ResultSet from preventing the Statement or Connection from
> > closing. Remember to log anything weird.
> >
> > | I'm looking for pointers to any resources on the web or elsewhere that
> > can
> > | help me track down the problem, or ideas about where to look, or what
we
> > | can do to improve post-freeze diagnosis of this problem.
> >
> > When the app freezes, what are yout threads doing? Does the server stop
> > serving requests entirely, or do some of them work while others do not?
> >
> > Good luck,
> > - -chris
>
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. I will have a look at the source and see how
> the app is interacting with the database.
>
> I don't think the whole tomcat server freezes; just the one application.
>
> I'm not sure how to know what my threads are doing.
>
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