I am having real problems with my Xindice based application server on Debian 3.0 / jdk 1.4.1_0 . It now crashes on a daily basis with OutOfMemory errors in the Tomcat logs. The only thing this system is running is Tomcat, Apache and Xindice.
The really wierd symptom is that Tomcat seems to create a huge number of java processes, 50+. Also, when I get a list of processes (ps ax) I see lots of strange stuff like: /bin/sh /var/xml-xindice-cvs/bin/xindice lc -c /db/cm Which is obviously me listing collections with the command line tool, but why is it still in my process listing if I haven't used that command for days?? I am moderately new to linux, so I might be misunderstanding something fundamental here, but it seems like java processes aren't terminating properly? More and more java processes seem to spawn until it finally dies from an OutOfMemory error. I understand this problem might be a problem with my OS, Java, Tomcat not Xindice, but I thought it might be worth a shot asking you guys. Btw, I am running Xindice cvs. The problem only showed up when I updated from 1.0 to the latest cvs, but then again that was when I moved to Tomcat too. Regards, Lachlan Donald
