just a question, if you are behind a loadbalancer, why wouldn't your just run it as non-root user on a non-privelleged port without jsvc?
regards Leon On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:31 AM, B.V. Prasad <hi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am running Tomcat 6 on a group of Linux servers behind a loadbalancer. This > setup was working fine when I ran Tomcat as root. However, when I moved to > jsvc, the production servers started to become unavailable within a couple of > hours, serving thousands of requests. I had to restart them to be online > again, only to get into the same issue in a couple of hours. When switched > back to run as root, things were fine again. I could find no errors in any > logs. > > I found that jsvc uses client JVM (the servers are server-class VMWare > servers) by default. I am suspecting when I ran as root (startup.sh), Tomcat > used server JVM that gave better performance, while jsvc performed worse with > client JVM, causing my maxThreads (150) to exhaust, acceptCount (100) to fill > up and making tomcat to deny requests. I am guessing if I make jsvc to use > server JVM, my problem will go away. I appreciate if someone can validate > this theory or offer other clues before I try this in production. Of course, > I shall also try a stress test case. > > Thanks, > BV Prasad > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
