Tomcat Users, Just wondering if anyone else has run into this problem.
First let's get the specifics out of the way: Tomcat: 5.5.25 Java: Sun JDK 1.5.0_13 Linux RHEL 5 The Tomcat server is situated on it's own file system, with the applications on another. I got a page this weekend, saying that the disk space was at 95% on the application file system. Yet when I did a 'du' on the directories, it only showed about 4% used. But when I did a lsof I saw the rest of the used files in a "(deleted)" state. I tried a 'sync' to see if that would write the changes to disk, but the files were still listed as "deleted" and the disk space (df) was still at 95%. I had to resort to restarting the tomcat server. Everything freed up and the disk usage was back to normal. To get a better understanding... the application indexes uploaded files, the indexing process creates the temporary files then removes them. I am wondering if anyone has seen this before (on Tomcat, I've seen this with databases where the only this to do is restart the server, but never with Tomcat) and what they have done to help alleviate the issue. Thanks, -- sunckell
