It looks like the connection object was not being garbage collected promptly (imagine that), and because it wasn't explicitly closed, it was just hanging open until garbage collection happened (I'm more used to python's garbage collector that is a bit more prompt).
Alex On 1/20/06, Duan, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only way to close db connections is to do within your servlet/jsp > application, i.e. java.sql.Connection.close(). But remember, the sql > connections in the web apps are not the physical connections. The > physical connections are maintained by the db pool and they will remain > open after the connections in the apps are closed, until the connection > timeout is reached. > > The first thing is to make sure that the sql (or logical) connections > are indeed closed in the app after an http session or user session is > completed. The next thing may be to reduce the timeout interval of the > db connection pool. > > ND > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 10:37 AM > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Connection Pool Woes > > I am using Tomcat 5.5.12 on RedHat ES 4. > > I have a server that is set to maxThreads="5", maxSpareThreads="5", > and when I use a Simply Data Source, that does not pooling, if I hit > the page a lot, I get over 30 connections opened, with database > connections that are not closing quickly at all. If this runs in > production, I'm going to run out of database connections. > > If I try a pooling datasource, the same thing happens, except the > server hangs on what I assume is the process to open a new connection > once it hit's the connection pool's maxConnections number. > > I am using JSTL sql and core to do database queries, and I have a > servlet called InitServlet that instantiates a DataSource and sets it > as the default datasource. > > I am using Postgresql as my database, and using Jdbc3PoolingDataSource > as my pooling datasource, and PGSimpleDataSource for my simple data > source. > > What can I do to get these connections to close once a servlet or JSP > has finished running? The plan is do have dozens of applications > running on this server, and if each app has it's own connection set, > I'm gonna run out of connections really fast. > > Alex > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
