production web site stops responding

[howardu]

We are running JBoss/Jetty 3.2.1 in a production application on Linux.
Every copule of weeks the web application stops working.

When you request the root of the web application you get a
directory listing rather than the default web page. When you request a
page which requires authentication it responds that the login.html page
cannot be found.

The server.log and request.log don't seem to have anything helpful.

We are able to work around this by:

1. redeploying the applicaiton
2. restarting jboss
3. restaring linux

Has anyone else seen similar behavior? Is there a known bug for this?

Thanks,
Howard

[milowe]

Yes, we had the same problem for a JBoss/Jetty 3.2.1/Lin installation. We didnt find the reason for this problem so we switched to use a JBoss/Tomcat configuration for that server.

I did some monitoring just to check the memory consumption and execution. Couldnt really find anything abnormal. The error condition also takes some time to reproduce. I dont have any deeper knowledge in Jetty so debug tracing would take some time. My guess is that some resources are not being returned correctly to the pool.

Please post if you find out how to work arounf this problem. It would be good to know.

[dare]

If this is Linux, most probably your java.io.tempdir is set to /tmp, and Linux is clearing that occasionally.

Create a new tmp dir somewhere other than /tmp

Edit your $JBOSS_DIST/bin/run.conf file.

Add to the JAVA_OPTS the following:

-Djava.io.tempdir=/some/path/to/new/tmp

You will have to restart JBoss, but this should fix your problem.

[russ396]

-Djava.io.tempdir=/some/path/to/new/tmp has an extra 'e' in tempdir, should be -Djava.io.tmpdir=/some/path/to/new/tmp

Thanks for the fix, works great.