Hello, we are running a Tomcat 5.0.28 on W2k Server with 2 GB RAM and JVM 1.5.0_11-b03 which is mainly used as application server for (Axis-based) SOAP Services.
**** From time to time our Tomcat blows up to use almost the whole available RAM and finally it "crashes". In the logfile, we find the following: - IOException while loading persisted sessions: java.io.EOFException java.io.EOFException at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readShort(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.util.CustomObjectInputStream.<init>(CustomObjectInputStr eam.java:56) [....] - Exception loading sessions from persistent storage java.io.EOFException at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readShort(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) [....] **** After that a restart of Tomcat is not possible and the following lines can be found in stdout.log: SEVERE: An exception or error occurred in the container during the request processing java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space Exception in thread "http-16302-Processor151" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space 28.11.2008 20:08:47 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor process SEVERE: Error processing request java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space **** Only a reboot of the whole server fixes the problem and tomcat works again as exptected. **** I have read in some forum, that we could clean the ${catalina.home}/work/Catalina/localhost/ directory to enable a tomcat restart without server restart. We haven't been able to try that yet, but that fixes only the symptomatic not the problem. Does anyone have an idea/experience where the problem comes from? Something to do with memory / session management? Extract from configuration / status, if needed: Free memory: 10.42 MB Total memory: 63.56 MB Max memory: 63.56 MB Max threads: 150 Min spare threads: 25 Max spare threads: 75 Current thread count: 84 Current thread busy: 13 Max processing time: 876219 ms Processing time: 153801 s Request count: 283471 Error count: 182 Bytes received: 552.95 MB Bytes sent: 549.65 MB Many thanks in advance, Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]