On 18/01/2021 16:13, Jalaj Asher wrote:
> We have a situation where in we are seeing with tomcat 8.5 and higher that 
> even when the application is not in use , tomcat is accessing different jars 
> in that  web-inf/ lib folder every few seconds or few minutes.
> 
> These jars are not getting loaded in memory , we profiled it to check if they 
> were getting loaded in the heap or the metaspace area but that was not the 
> case.

Try using the profiler to trace method calls. Looking at calls that
involve File and/or FileInputStream should point you in the right direction.

A clean Tomcat install won't behave in the way you describe.

Mark


> 
> When I ran the lsof command though I could see that multiple jars were being 
> accessed (read) from that folder very frequently, with no application usage.
> 
> Any reason or any setting that you are aware off that could be causing this. 
> I did enable the all setting for localhost under logging properties as well 
> as the below option
> 
> org.apache.tomcat.util.http = ALL
> 
> 
> but none shows the files being accessed unless I run the LSOF command on 
> linux. I am not sure why is tomcat reading those files multiple times in a 
> minute.
> 
> Also wanted to see if there is a setting to switch off this behavior.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jalaj
> 
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