Re: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-09 Thread Mark H. Wood
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Re: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, On 7/6/12 2:43 PM, Peter Balogh wrote: > Is that a debian based system? Isn't it a leap second related > issue? Do you have ntp installed? Did you restart the machine since > saturday? "That's just insane", I thought. Until I checked-out my se

Re: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread francis picabia
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Peter Balogh wrote: > Hi, > > Is that a debian based system? Isn't it a leap second related issue? > Do you have ntp installed? Did you restart the machine since saturday? > > Just my ideas I think you have the solution there. I knew about the leap second but had

Re: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread Peter Balogh
Hi, Is that a debian based system? Isn't it a leap second related issue? Do you have ntp installed? Did you restart the machine since saturday? Just my ideas Best regards, Peter Balogh On 2012.07.06. 20:35, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: Hi, Is that a debian based system? Isn't it a leap secon

RE: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: francis picabia [mailto:fpica...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors > firewall is blocking 8080 and apache is off. By "apache" do you mean httpd? Tomcat is also an Apache product. > tomcat 7.0.28 from tarball install is running

Re: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread francis picabia
Here is a new scenario: firewall is blocking 8080 and apache is off. tomcat 7.0.28 from tarball install is running as user tomcat. Load is about 6. It never comes down after some 5 minutes or so. Again, this is simply the tarball install, with no configuration. Here is the top of top: top - 1

Re: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francis, On 7/6/12 12:52 PM, francis picabia wrote: > I have two servers with Debian 6 and an older tomcat 5.0.30 Echoing Chuck's comments: upgrade. You are almost 4 major releases behind. > top - 13:41:38 up 30 days, 6:21, 2 users, load average:

RE: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: francis picabia [mailto:fpica...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors > I stop tomcat 5.0. Good, since it hasn't been supported in quite some time. > I install the tomcat6 from Debian What happens if you install a real Tomcat from

Re: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread francis picabia
Here is another thing which is odd... I stop tomcat 5.0. I install the tomcat6 from Debian and allow it to start with the default "It works" page. The tomcat load is still unusual: top - 14:07:12 up 52 days, 6:36, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 154 total, 3 running, 151 sle

High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread francis picabia
Hello, I have two servers with Debian 6 and an older tomcat 5.0.30 Starting only recently, each has taken a sudden leap in load. There is no traffic hitting it, as I can confirm using lsof. One server had a load of nearly 0 and at midnight jumped to 10 and stayed that way until the next day. Not