Chris, I do understand the lack of information like stack trace etc and that is precisely my problem. In my past experience a version incompatibility could cause severe headaches and the symtoms don't point to much.
Some more details about our env: For the upgrade, the server.xml was re-created based on the template provided. Please note that the migration was first fully tested and them deployed to production. Moreover the app runs for 2-3 days with no errors and under heavy load. It is then that the errors start showing up. There is no consistency which makes debugging most difficult. I am thinking that the problem is happening with the JVM interaction with the OS that is why I want to make sure that we are current with the OS and the Java - change to 1.6. The Catalina dir under /work is always deleted before re-start. This may help - we have several servers with different memory and on machines with lower memory we've experienced crashes. We are trying to capture the core files (we have an incomplete core file because of file space constraints but have increased it now). On machines with higher memory Tomcat does not crash but as I indicated we get SocketException: [2012-09-25 12:13:35,700] ERROR com.*Action - System Error java.sql.SQLException: java.io.IOException: java.net.SocketException: There is no process to read data written to a pipe. at com.ashna.jturbo.driver.x.e(x.java) at com.ashna.jturbo.driver.x.a(x.java) at com.ashna.jturbo.driver.y.execute(y.java) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.execute(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:172) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.execute(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:172) ch...@christopherschultz.net 09/28/2012 10:21 AM Please respond to users@tomcat.apache.org To users@tomcat.apache.org cc Subject Re: Tomcat 6 serious issues on AIX 5.3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Vincent, On 9/28/12 12:47 PM, vincent.soo...@daimler.com wrote: > We ran our web app on Tomcat 4 on an AIX 5.3 box Java 5_64 with no > issues for 2 years. Great. > We recently upgraded to Tomcat 6 and we are seeing some unusual > problems. How did you upgrade? Please be very specific: lots of people think they can just re-use their existing configuration (e.g. server.xml) from prior Tomcat versions and things will just work. They won't. > 1) After working for 2-3 days with heavy load One of our functions > errors with java.sql.SQLException: java.io.IOException: > java.net.SocketException: There is no process to read data written > to a pipe. Full stack trace? > 2) Jsp classes that were working properly start throwing Exceptions > like ClassCastException Again, full stack trace? Do you precompile JSPs? Did you clean-out Tomcat's 'work' directory after the upgrade and before you restarted Tomcat? > Resolution is only by clearing cache and re-starting. What cache are you clearing? > We are thinking maybe the OS needs and upgrade and we need to be on > Java 1.6 Well, Tomcat 6 only requires Java 1.5, but Oracle no longer supports Java 1.5 so it's probably time to move up. What versions of everything are you running? > Would appreciate if anyone else had similar experience - what was > resolution. You haven't really described your situation other than "things sometimes break". If you give more information, we might be able to give you better feedback. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBl21MACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBpGQCgkvWHLKcxHKhcwFF4LHnIvI8R paAAoLWab7aS1tZZziGtOWPjeY/vXJir =D/q1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org If you are not the intended addressee, please inform us immediately that you have received this e-mail in error, and delete it. We thank you for your cooperation.