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Mark and M,

On 11/13/19 19:31, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On November 13, 2019 11:42:34 PM UTC, "M. Manna"
> <manme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I see this update on Windows which may have been responsible
>> (suspicion only, haven’t rolled it back yet)
>> 
>> 
>> https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4494175/kb4494175-intel-micr
ocode-updates
>>
>>
>> 
Was 8.5.45 built on Windows 10 in presence of this update ?
> 
> No. Tomcat 8.5.45 and Tomcat Native 1.2.23 were built on a fully 
> patched at the time of the build Windows 7 64-bit VM.
Also it doesn't matter because binaries don't include CPU microcode.

It's more likely that the target system has microcode updates such as
these that may negatively impact performance.

- -chris

>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 17:55, M. Manna <manme...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Chris,
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 16:27, Christopher Schultz < 
>>> ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
>>> 
> On 11/13/19 11:20, M. Manna wrote:
>>>>>> HI Mark,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 15:38, Mark Thomas
>>>>>> <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 12/11/2019 19:11, M. Manna wrote:
>>>>>>>> HI Mark,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> following my previous reply, we have now confirmed
>>>>>>>> that it's indeed
>>>>>>> 8.5.45
>>>>>>>> with APR 1.2.23 that's causing such high JVM CPU
>>>>>>>> usage. We used took out 2 out of 50 servers from the
>>>>>>>> load balancer config, reverted tomcat, and
>>>>>>>> redeployed. With near to identical user traffic, the
>>>>>>>> two servers are responding normally without/without
>>>>>>>> traffic with 8.5.41. The JVM dump looks a lot better
>>>>>>>> with 8.5.41.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> We do think that the recent changes in APR and some
>>>>>>>> other tomcat jar may have caused compatibility issue
>>>>>>>> on Windows server 2016 (64-bit) platform. But
>>>>>>>> unfortunately, we cannot pinpoint exactly what change
>>>>>>>> may have caused this (i.e. actual OS vs Security
>>>>>>>> Updates). With this in mind, we are also being wary
>>>>>>>> to move to 8.5.47 as we don't know if the same issue
>>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>> occur
>>>>>>>> again. Since 8.5.41 has been packaged with previously
>>>>>>>> accepted
>>>>>>> application
>>>>>>>> installer, we are more comfortable rolling back.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Just to confirm, you see this high CPU usage with a
>>>>>>> clean install (no additional web applications deployed,
>>>>>>> no configuration changes) on Windows 2016 DataCenter
>>>>>>> (64-bit)?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If this is the case, it should be fairly easy to
>>>>>>> reproduce.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We do not deploy multiple applications. In fact, Under
>>>>>>> tomcat
>>>>>> webapps/ROOT we only have one application (ours). Each
>>>>>> tomcat instance is hosted on a VM (total 50) and all of
>>>>>> them are identically configured (server.xml, web.xml,
>>>>>> logging, CPU/RAM). We have not made any other
>>>>>> configuration change between 8.5.41 and 8.5.45. And yes,
>>>>>> I agree with you that it's fairly easy to reproduce.
> 
> I think the question is whether or not your application is
> required
>>> to
> be deployed. Can you reproduce this issue with just the stock 
> applications bundled with Tomcat?
> 
>>>> 
>>>> My apologies, but our application needs to be deployed. We
>>>> have not
>>> (or
>>>> didn't try in the past) to simply deploy tomcat with stock
>>> application (in
>>>> other words, simply starting the tomcat OOB) on our prod
>>>> servers. This is the first time it has hit us with such
>>>> disparity. I’ll try to investigate and get a stock
>>>> application data. But we may not be able
>>> to do
>>>> that quite easily as it’s in our production.
>>>> 
>>>> What I can see is that 3 Windows updates may have been
>>>> responsible
>>> for
>>>> this, but we aren’t sure about that. I’ll let you know if we
>>>> can get anything with the stock application instance.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> - -chris
>>>> 
>>>> 
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