Re: init called multiple times

You should not be using JRun 3.1 - it has a notorious memory leak.
upgrade to 4.0

Mark


Mary Collamore wrote:

>We are using JRun 3.1 on Windows 2000, and have a servlet that runs a web
>questionnaire.  It instantiates a class (once) for the session, which looks
>up datasource for pooled connection to db. When the user presses "next"
>after each question, the servlet is called again as the action for
>the "next" (submit) button. In effect, posting to itself.  For each
>question, the servlet tells the datasource to grab a conn, record answer,
>get next question from database, and then closes it (returns to pool).
>
>The servlet class implements SingleThreadModel, so I understand that JRun
>may make more than one copy when service is needed by more than one user.
>But the most users I have ever noted at one time is 3, and I often see in
>event log that "init" is called multiple times in a row, sometimes as many
>as 10 - 18, within seconds of each other.  Each time init is called, there
>is also request for new connection from the pool. This seems to loosely
>correalate with other errors, such as multiple blocks of "Connection reset
>by peer:
>JVM_recv in socket input stream read [java.net.SocketException:
>Connection reset by peer: JVM_recv in socket input stream read]..."
>
>I do not understand why "init" is being called so many times, and if this
>is leading to the multiple "connection reset by peer statements", socket
>closed, and other strange errors I see in event log. They do all seem to
>happen around the same time. It is not consistent, as at other times I see
>init being called maybe 1-3 times as users log on, with no problems. Could
>a firewall at a user's site issue be causing any of this?
>
>I would appreciate any thoughts about what might be causing init to be
>called so many times in a row.
>
>Thanks in advance, Mary
>
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