Re: Inactive instance but no deaths and no logs

Chuck Hill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webobjects.admin
Organization Global Village Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sounds like your code is deadlocking.  Do the logs indicate a growing 
number of worker threads?  See WO specific info here:
http://wodev.spearway.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WODev.woa/wa/Main?wikiPage=AvoidingDeadlock

I don't have any quick pointers on getting a thread dump from a 
running app.  Check the archives for 'thread dump'.

Chuck


Simon wrote:
> 
> hi all, i'm having a troublesome deployment week !
> 
> we have an app that is running with 8 instances configured. every now 
> and then (at least a couple of times per week) we get the odd instance 
> become completely unresponsive. the strange thing is that there is no 
> output in the logs, and monitor records no deaths. if i try and stop the 
> instance in monitor nothing happens, but i can delete it. however if i 
> then add a new instance and try and start it up monitor will complain 
> that it's allocated port is still in use.
> 
> i'm a little puzzled as to how to debug this one, but what's more 
> annoying is that it is virtually impossible to pick up the error as 
> there is no indication in the logs that something is wrong, and because 
> the instance doesn't die monitor doesn't send me an email! we only 
> noticed it because a user reported the site being slow, which was 
> actually due to them being allocated the unresponsive instance upon 
> their first request and the adaptor waiting 30 seconds before shifting 
> them to another instance.
> 
> any pointers would be most appreciated.
> 
> thanks, simon
> 
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