[Antonio Delgado Peris, Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:52:49PM +0100]
> Now, something else you may find interesting.
>
> After a comment we got, we tried with setting "export
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19" in /etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf, rather than just
> "/etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf" as we had it. What happened is that instead
> of a tomcat process with a lot of threads, we see a growing number of
> tomcat processes. The memory exhaustion is as before, but the number of
> connections to rgma12.pp.rl.ac.uk is just one.
>
By setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 you are forcing libc to use the old
LinuxThreads threading library, in which each thread has a separate
PID, instead of the newer NPTL threading library.
Details at: http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT6753699732.html
Regards,
Riccardo
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