It's actually a vendor supplied application. I filed a bug/support request and they returned with a patch.
I guess I was wondering if there were any jvm startup options I may have over looked that may help with this sort of issues. But it definitely seems to be a coding issue. Thanks, Chad On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Christopher Schultz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chad, > > Chad Kellerman wrote: > > To get a better understanding... the application indexes > > uploaded files, the indexing process creates the temporary files then > > removes them. > > Can you share the code that actually does this? The javadoc for > File.createTempFile states: > > "To arrange for a file created by this method to be deleted > automatically, use the deleteOnExit() method." > > If your engineers followed this advice, this may be your problem: the > JVM is waiting until JVM shutdown to actually delete the files. Even if > the code does an explicit File.delete(), the JVM is probably still > hanging onto a reference to the file's directory entry in order to > delete it on exit. That seems like a plausible explanation for why the > files are marked as "deleted" in lsof, but are still being kept alive by > the JVM. > > The solution here would be to simply not use File.deleteOnExit; instead, > use File.delete explicitly. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjlEpIACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBo0wCfRhUitB/6/pxDQiGtbdo0Ctwk > qj4AnjuQwMY3yduWoAN5/InlbZnX1CW6 > =i6Uc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
