Hi, We are using an embedded instance of Tomcat and would like to use a FileStore for Session storage to keep memory requirements low while still allowing to have many sessions opened. This is a single tomcat instance, sharing sessions with other instances is not needed.
As I embed Tomcat, I have created the FileStore as follows: Context context = tomcat.addWebapp(contextRoot, webDir); tomcat.start(); { // Override the default Manager and set a persistent manager which can store Sessions on disk PersistentManager manager = new PersistentManager(); FileStore store = new FileStore(); store.setDirectory(new File(workDir, "store").getAbsolutePath()); manager.setStore(store); context.setManager(manager); manager.setMaxActiveSessions(-1); manager.setMaxIdleSwap(500); manager.setMinIdleSwap(200); manager.setMaxIdleBackup(400); } As far as I understood documentation, this should allow me to have an unlimited number of sessions (while the session timeout of 30 minutes still applies), but swaps out the sessions at least after 500 seconds. It basically works fine this way, only a limited number of sessions are held in memory, others are swapped out. The only issue is that I start getting the following log output frequently after aprox. half an hour when the first sessions are timing out: 2011-04-06 12:17:20 Custome SEVERE [PersistentManagerBase] persistentManager.swapInInvalid 2011-04-06 12:17:20 Custome SEVERE [PersistentManagerBase] persistentManager.swapInInvalid 2011-04-06 12:17:20 Custome SEVERE [PersistentManagerBase] persistentManager.swapInInvalid 2011-04-06 12:17:21 Custome SEVERE [PersistentManagerBase] persistentManager.swapInInvalid 2011-04-06 12:17:22 Custome SEVERE [PersistentManagerBase] persistentManager.swapInInvalid 2011-04-06 12:17:22 Custome SEVERE [PersistentManagerBase] persistentManager.swapInInvalid 2011-04-06 12:17:22 Custome SEVERE [PersistentManagerBase] persistentManager.swapInInvalid 2011-04-06 12:17:22 Custome SEVERE [PersistentManagerBase] persistentManager.swapInInvalid When looking at the code in PersistentManager and StandardSession, I can not explain what this severe-log tries to tell me. It seems we get this for every session that is timing out after 30 minutes of inactivity. It seems the expiry-check marks the session as "invalid" which in turn causes the check in swapIn() to fail. Now my question: - As it seems to work nevertheless, can I safely ignore this error message or does it indicate that I am doing something fundamentally wrong with PersistentManager and FileStore? Thanks... Dominik Dominik Stadler, Team Lead, R&D dynaTrace<http://www.dynatrace.com/>, dominik.stad...@dynatrace.com<mailto:dominik.stad...@dynatrace.com> Skype: stadler.dominik dynaTrace<http://www.dynatrace.com/> >> Monitor. Resolve. Prevent. >> www.dynatrace.com<http://www.dynatrace.com/> | blog.dynatrace.com<http://blog.dynatrace.com/>