Re: POST request hangs hup

> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 23:40 +0200, Ivan Longhi wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hi, Ivan.
>
> > I'm running tomcat 6.0.18 with java 1.6.0_13 on a linux box.
> > The only webapp deployed is Sun OpenSSO (http://www.opensso.org) built from
> > source (20090930).
> > Sometimes a tomcat thread hangs hup while serving a POST request
> > (/UI/Login): monitoring tomcat
> > status I see the processing time grows and the thread never ends. When this
> > happens I am not able to shutdown
> > tomcat with shutdown.sh and I need to kill -9 the java process.
> > I think it is not a problem of memory exausted because if I run "top" the
> > memory usage by java process
> > is ok (a few hundreds MB despite CATALINA_OPTS="-Xmx6048M") but the cpu
> > usage is 100%.
>
> I think could be anything: An infinite loop in your app, a database (or
> other resource) deadlock, any intensive db query (with a really long
> transaction timeout).
> For instance, last month we've adopted a new Transaction Manager that
> keeps some threads (non daemons) running and prevents Tomcat of doing a
> "clean" stop. Now i'm "forcing" Tomcat to stop after 5 minutes waiting.
>
> My (little) experience tells me that in cases like this, your app is
> more guilt than your Application Server/Web Container. But it is just my
> 2 cents.
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