Hi gents I have problems with my web site, my webserver is a
redhat enterprise, I use tomcat+apache to server my website.
Monday's morning (usually) when everyone loggs in and doesn't
disconnect as they should my httpd and java processes rise up a lot,
but when the httpd processes get over 95 and the java ones get over 145
(more or less) then my server doesn't recover and the processes keep
rising, so the only thing I found to solve this is to restart apache
and tomcat.

|-httpd---99*[httpd]
|-java---java---153*[java]

Is there any way to prevent this to happen? is there any script
that could be counfigured to automatically restart?

I'm a newbie in webservers, so I'll try to ask any questions the
best I can.

Thanks in advance and regards

Sako wrote:
> Hi gents I have problems with my web site, my webserver is a
> redhat enterprise, I use tomcat+apache to server my website.
> Monday's morning (usually) when everyone loggs in and doesn't
> disconnect as they should my httpd and java processes rise up a lot,
> but when the httpd processes get over 95 and the java ones get over 145
> (more or less) then my server doesn't recover and the processes keep
> rising, so the only thing I found to solve this is to restart apache
> and tomcat.
>
> |-httpd---99*[httpd]
> |-java---java---153*[java]
>
> Is there any way to prevent this to happen? is there any script
> that could be counfigured to automatically restart?
>
> I'm a newbie in webservers, so I'll try to ask any questions the
> best I can.
>
> Thanks in advance and regards
>
It's a JVM issue,.. ( your tomcat ) ...

it seems to be getting tooo much load,.. so it can't handle the requests
anymore,..

this results in a "no more threads available" within tomcat..

effectively rendering new requests useless,..
on the front end apache is still getting requests but can't pass em on
to hte back-end anymore..

Look into tweaking your tomcat and in the meantime set the timeouts
within apache to a lower number, so apache won't hang as fast once
tomcat hangs...

Hope this s

Pete


P.S. we had pretty ,much the same prob at work with a 3rd party site
written in java,.. sonce no more budget for a good code review,,.. from
our internal client, we've temp resolved the issue by having tomcat
restart everynight ( cron job in cron.daily runs at 4 AM so noone has a
prob with it since it's a site for schools,,.. last time I checked
schoolkids aren't in around that time lol )