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On 27/01/2012 14:26, gnath wrote:
> We defined our data sources in spring configuration file. We did not have any 
> DB configuration defined on Server.
>
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> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Tomcat 6.0.35-SocketException: Too many open files issue with
>  
> On 27 Jan 2012, at 05:32, gnath <gautam_exquis...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Chris,
>>
>>
>> After seeing the initial connection pool issue, i started searching online 
>> for help and i found this article :
>> http://vigilbose.blogspot.com/2009/03/apache-commons-dbcp-and-tomcat-jdbc.html
>> so, i thought may be tomcat's jar would bring some improvement. by the way, 
>> we had commons-dbcp-1.3.jar. Do you recommend upgrading to newer commons 
>> dbcp jar instead of using tomcat-jdbc.jar.
> 
> Tomcat ships with a DBCP implementing of its own.
> 
> How and where are you defining the database?
> 
> 
> p
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> Just because we are running tomcat-6.0.35, it did not come with 
>> tomcat-jdbc.jar, so we downloaded the 1.1.1 version or jar and dropped in 
>> WEB-INF/lib and started using it.
>>
>>
>> I agree what you are saying about leaking the connection and will plan to 
>> set the logAbandoned flag as you suggested.
>>
>>
>> However, i was about to file a new issue but would like to describe here as 
>> well. So we have 2 servers running tomcat (same code, same configuration). 
>> After we replaced tomcat-jdbc.jar and added 'removeAbandoned' flag to true, 
>> one of the servers is doing great (ofcourse i agree that pool is cleaning up 
>> the mess), but we saw one new issue on the second server. it hasn't been 
>> releasing the connections and was consistently growing slowly. So i 
>> collected thread dump and i saw a deadlock :
>>
>> Found one Java-level deadlock:
>> =============================
>> "catalina-exec-1":
>>    waiting to lock monitor 0x000000005d7944b8 (object 0x00000005bd522568, a 
>> com.mysql.jdbc.Connection),
>>    which is held by "[Pool-Cleaner]:Tomcat Connection Pool[1-1015483951]"
>> "[Pool-Cleaner]:Tomcat Connection Pool[1-1015483951]":
>>    waiting to lock monitor 0x000000005dcdea28 (object 0x00000005bd659ce8, a 
>> com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSet),
>>    which is held by "catalina-exec-1"
>>
>> Java stack information for the threads listed above:
>> ===================================================
>> "catalina-exec-1":
>>          at 
>> com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.getCharsetConverter(Connection.java:3177)
>>          - waiting to lock <0x00000005bd522568> (a com.mysql.jdbc.Connection)
>>          at com.mysql.jdbc.Field.getStringFromBytes(Field.java:583)
>>          at com.mysql.jdbc.Field.getName(Field.java:487)
>>          at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSet.buildIndexMapping(ResultSet.java:593)
>>          at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSet.findColumn(ResultSet.java:926)
>>          - locked <0x00000005bd659ce8> (a com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSet)
>>          at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSet.getInt(ResultSet.java:2401)
>>
>> "[Pool-Cleaner]:Tomcat Connection Pool[1-1015483951]":
>>          at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSet.close(ResultSet.java:736)
>>          - waiting to lock <0x00000005bd659ce8> (a com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSet)
>>          at com.mysql.jdbc.Statement.realClose(Statement.java:1606)
>>          - locked <0x00000005bd522568> (a com.mysql.jdbc.Connection)
>>          - locked <0x00000005bd5e81c0> (a 
>> com.mysql.jdbc.ServerPreparedStatement)
>>          at 
>> com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.realClose(PreparedStatement.java:1703)
>>          at 
>> com.mysql.jdbc.ServerPreparedStatement.realClose(ServerPreparedStatement.java:901)
>>          - locked <0x00000005bd525ba0> (a java.lang.Object)
>>          - locked <0x00000005bd522568> (a com.mysql.jdbc.Connection)
>>          - locked <0x00000005bd5e81c0> (a 
>> com.mysql.jdbc.ServerPreparedStatement)
>>          at 
>> com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.closeAllOpenStatements(Connection.java:2126)
>>          at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.realClose(Connection.java:4422)
>>          at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.close(Connection.java:2098)
>>          - locked <0x00000005bd522568> (a com.mysql.jdbc.Connection)
>>          at 
>> org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.PooledConnection.disconnect(PooledConnection.java:320)
>>
>>
>>
>> Please help us on this. Could it be a problem with tomcat-jdbc.jar?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -G
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>
>> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:41 AM
>> Subject: Re: Tomcat 6.0.35-SocketException: Too many open files  issue with
>>
> G,
> 
> On 1/25/12 11:53 PM, gnath wrote:
>>>> As you have suggested, i started collecting the thread dumps
> 
> Thread dumps will set you free. Well, not really. Instead, they will
> tell you where your webapp is breaking, which usually means more work
> for you. But at least the hard part is done: finding out what's breaking.
> 
>>>> when it happened again and we saw some kind of DBCP Connection pool
>>>> issues leading to 'Too Many open files' issue.
> 
> That will definitely do it.
> 
>>>> So we decided to replace the commons DBCP with tomcat-jdbc.jar
>>>> (with same configuration properties).
> 
> Why?
> 
>>>> After this change, it seemed for few hours but started seeing in
>>>> the logs where the Connection Pool jar could not give any
>>>> connections and seems to be all the connections are busy. So we
>>>> went ahead and added a configuration property
>>>> 'removeAbandoned=true' in our Datasource configuration.
> 
> I would go back to DBCP unless you think you need to switch for some
> reason.
> 
> I suspect you are leaking database connections and don't have a
> suitable timeout for removal of "lost" database connections (or maybe
> didn't have that set up in the first place).
> 
> You really need to enable "logAbandoned" so you can find out where
> your connection leaks are, and fix them. In development, set
> maxActive="1" and leave it there, forever. Also, set
> logAbandoned="true" and always run like that in development. Running
> like that in production isn't a bad idea, either.
> 
>>>> We are still watching the performance and the server behavior
>>>> after these changes. Will keep you posted on how things will turn
>>>> out or if i see any further issues.
> 
> I suspect you are still leaking connections, but your pool is now
> silently cleaning-up after the mess your webapp is making. Instrument
> your pool. Fix your leaks.
> 
> -chris
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