Ah, yes, I wasn't setting the correct limit. Thanks much, it works now... But now Tomcat takes almost 5x longer to start up than it did with 5.5.15. >From 7 seconds to 36 seconds. It won't be restarted much, but that's a bit silly. Why?
Corey -----Original Message----- From: Filip Hanik - Dev lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:34 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: 5.5.16, Too many open files on startup the question is if you're ulimit really is unlimited. there are a few settings, linux has 1024 for open files. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tomcat]$ ulimit unlimited [EMAIL PROTECTED] tomcat]$ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 7168 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited Filip Corey Kaiser wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server.xml with 37 virtual hosts defined, each with 1 root context > also defined in the same file (yes, not recommended, but not explicitly > disallowed either, right?). > > Tomcat starts up fine and is solid with this config on 5.5.15, but not on > 5.5.16. > > After 14 loaded contexts on 5.5.16, I get "Too many open files" errors, and > exceptions like: > Apr 10, 2006 5:56:23 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig > processContextConfig > SEVERE: Missing default web.xml, using application web.xml only > conf/context.xml /usr/local/tomcat/conf/context.xml > java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/local/tomcat/conf/context.xml (Too many > open files) > > That context.xml is in place and contains default values. > > I did notice that a change was made between 5.5.15 and 5.5.16 that may have > something to do with this (from the ChangeLog): > Deploy folders which don't have a WEB-INF, and return an error when a > context file does not contain a Context element (remm) > > Not sure why folders without a WEB-INF are being deployed now, as I have > many folders that contain static content that I certainly don't want > deployed as webapps. > > Also, I'm on Linux, and my ulimit is set to unlimited. > > Any help greatly appreciated. > -corey > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]