On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 14:31 -0400, Scott McClanahan wrote:
> We are using the dbcp capabilities of tomcat and configured the
> datasource in the applications context configuration file.  In a few
> simple tests we've seen some unexpected behavior and aren't sure if it's
> an error on our part.  We are running tomcat 5.5.26 with the
> compatibility libraries on java 1.4.2_16.  Also, CentOS 5.1.
> 
> Basically, we setup the datasource to have an initialSize=5, maxIdle=10,
> minIdle=5.  We made a simple request to the web application and
> immediately 5 connections to database were created (as expected).  When
> we redeployed the application lambda probe reported zero connections to
> the database in that datasource (as expected).  Netstat on the server
> reported 5 connections still and tcpdump showed that the validation
> queries were still being done across those connections.  The moment we
> made the same simple request to the application again 5 new connections
> were created and the 5 previous connections were not used at all for the
> database queries.  If we follow this same procedure any arbitrary number
> of times 5 additional connections are created and the previous 5 are
> useless (although still validated with the validationquery).
> 
> Is this expected behavior during a redeploy or application restart?  We
> are using the connection pooling libraries bundled in tomcat and haven't
> loaded any pooling libraries in the application.  Thanks.

Some times our exchange server really mangles e-mails or out right
blocks them so this is just a resend in case it didn't make it through.
Anybody else seeing this behavior?  More details can be made available.


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