Sean Carolan wrote:
>> Sounds similar to the mod_jk connector in apache to connect to
>> tomcat. When I had to deal with this I setup a dedicated apache
>> instance on each system running tomcat whose sole purpose for
>> existence was for testing that connector.
>>
>> So say setup an apache instance on another port, and have it
>> direct all traffic back to mod_jserv, then hit the apache
>> instance with http. It's not perfect but at least for me apache
>> was a lot more stable than tomcat especially in such a basic
>> configuration, so it worked well as a way to test the health
>> of the mod_jk connector.
>
> Excellent idea, Nate. I already have apache installed on all these
> servers, so it should be fairly trivial to set up a local test site
> just for this purpose. I'm going to test this out in our lab
> environment today and see how it performs.
If this is old enough to be running a Sun 1.4.x JVM and the web server
generates images, there was a bug that caused the JVM itself to leak
memory under certain circumstances. I've forgotten the details but it
was something like an unreleased file reference per image.
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Les Mikesell
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