Thank you Christopher. I'm going to start with the thread dump since we are using jdk and that appears very straightforward. Part of my dilemma is that the problem is occurring on a private network where I do not have access to the internet. Our public facing application with the same exact build is not experiencing this problem, so I'm wondering if this is a network issue on the private side. I'll start here though.
Thanks a lot. Larry Cohen On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > Larry, > > On 11/16/15 4:42 PM, Cohen, Laurence wrote: > > Are there any tools that come with Java that I can use to troubleshoot an > > intermittent problem we are having? The problem is that several times a > > day, our Tomcat applications will stop responding and I'll have to > restart > > them to get them working again. It's gotten to the point where I have > > written a script which does a wget every 10 minutes against an object in > > the DB, and if it fails, it will restart our apps. > > Consider using a real monitoring tool. There are some free ones > available, such as Nagios and ighinga, that aren't much more complicated > than your wget script, except that they have alerting, history, etc. all > built around them. They also let you sample LOTS of things. > > > I've also done some statistics gathering and imported them into a > > spreadsheet so I can see what is going on at the time the system is > > crashing. All I can see is that the Tomcat connections are spiking. > > Spiking to a particular limit? What does your connector configuration > look like? And your deployment? > > > We are running Tomcat 7.0.59 with two apps, Postgres 9.2 on the backend > > which is not administered by us, and httpd on the front end, 2.2.15. The > > httpd server and app server are RHEL6. > > Just a single Tomcat instance? That narrows things down a bit. How are > you reverse-proxying? mod_jk? mod_proxy_http? > > What does your JNDI DataSource configuration look like? > > Are you able to take a thread dump when the server seizes-up? > > http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_do_I_obtain_a_thread_dump_of_my_running_webapp_.3F > > This will tell you what the server is doing. I suspect you'll see a > bunch of threads waiting on a database connection or something like that. > > -chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- [image: www.novetta.com] Larry Cohen System Administrator 12021 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 400 Reston, VA 20190 Email lco...@novetta.com Office 703-885-1064
