Background: In the last few months we migrated our web application from Tomcat 7.0.55 to Tomcat 9.0.19 (26). That transition was relatively straightforward until we reviewed the results of our performance tests. Those tests showed an increase in CPU usage and disk I/O on our Windows 2012 server. When we switch back to Tomcat 7, the metrics for CPU/disk usage were significantly lower (similar to previous tests).
As we investigated the cause of the increase in cpu/disk usage we found the tomcat process was repeatedly opening and closing the jars of our web application. The process profile showed all the jars in WEB-INF/lib being closed and reopened within seconds while the application was processing requests (and to some extent when quite). Now we are trying to determine why. We have a general understanding that the WebappClassLoaderBase.java implementation changed in Tomcat 8.5. The Tomcat 7 implementation provided for the configuration of jarOpenInterval (which we used the default = 90s). The latest implementation appears to track the jar modification times with a hash map called jarModificationTimes, but we are unable to find a similar time-to-live configuration or what triggers the lifecycle listener to close the jars (what calls WebappClassLoaderBase.modified() or destroy()) - assuming we understand this lifecycle behavior. The server is configured mostly with default settings. The Context reloadable property is NOT set. We have tried increasing the cache time of the Resources cacheTtl property as the default of 5s seemed close to the time the jars were reloaded. We have not been successful. Question: What is the cause of the repeated reloading of our web application jars? What can trigger the class loader to close all the file handles related to the jars in the web application WEB-INF/lib directory - and then open them again within a few seconds? CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message and any included attachments are from Cerner Corporation and are intended only for the addressee. The information contained in this message is confidential and may constitute inside or non-public information under international, federal, or state securities laws. Unauthorized forwarding, printing, copying, distribution, or use of such information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the addressee, please promptly delete this message and notify the sender of the delivery error by e-mail or you may call Cerner's corporate offices in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A at (+1) (816)221-1024. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
