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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by "James H. H. Lampert" <ja...@touchtonecorp.com> on 2015/06/22 20:54:11 UTC
We have a problem involving weird error messages in our Tomcat context,
and catalina.out growing to enormous size.
We have two weird things going on at the same customer installation.
First, we have a situation in which catalina.out is inexplicibly growing
to enormous size (4558505886 bytes) in a very short time (under a week),
and growing by 4k in under a minute. And yet the catalina.[date] files
are all of very reasonable size.
Second, we've been finding a lot of "There is no process to read data
written to a pipe." exceptions. They're apparently being thrown by our
own code, but we haven't been able to determine why, and while a Google
search on that exact phrase turns up hundreds of references specific to
aix, it doesn't turn up any specific to OS/400 (or whatever IBM is
calling it this week). Don't know if there's any connection between that
and the enormous catalina.out.
Tomcat version is 7.0.47, running on an AS/400.
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James H. H. Lampert
Touchtone Corporation
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Re: We have a problem involving weird error messages in our Tomcat
context, and catalina.out growing to enormous size.
Posted by André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com>.
James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> We have two weird things going on at the same customer installation.
>
> First, we have a situation in which catalina.out is inexplicibly growing
> to enormous size (4558505886 bytes) in a very short time (under a week),
> and growing by 4k in under a minute. And yet the catalina.[date] files
> are all of very reasonable size.
>
> Second, we've been finding a lot of "There is no process to read data
> written to a pipe." exceptions. They're apparently being thrown by our
> own code, but we haven't been able to determine why, and while a Google
> search on that exact phrase turns up hundreds of references specific to
> aix, it doesn't turn up any specific to OS/400 (or whatever IBM is
> calling it this week). Don't know if there's any connection between that
> and the enormous catalina.out.
>
> Tomcat version is 7.0.47, running on an AS/400.
>
Hi.
I don't know anything about AS/400 - OS/400.
But catalina.out is usually where the output of the *JVM* is being re-directed
(such as exceptions in the JVM etc..).
Can you see what's being written ?
(iow, is there an equivalent to "tail -f filename" under OS/400 ?)
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Re: We have a problem involving weird error messages in our Tomcat
context, and catalina.out growing to enormous size.
Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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James,
On 6/22/15 4:58 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> On 6/22/15 12:11 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
>> Well... what's in the catalina.out file? Is it huge numbers of
>> exceptions of the type described above?
>
> Still haven't been able to see what's in it (the terminal-based
> tools won't handle stream files that big), but when this happened
> before, it wasn't 4 gigabytes; it was 6 HUNDRED gigabytes.
Wow.
Is there an AS/400 version of "head" (or "tail")?
Even "dd" would work... just ask for something like bytes 1,000,000 -
2,000,000 and dump that to a file, then look at *that* file.
- -chris
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Re: We have a problem involving weird error messages in our Tomcat
context, and catalina.out growing to enormous size.
Posted by "James H. H. Lampert" <ja...@touchtonecorp.com>.
On 6/22/15 12:11 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> Well... what's in the catalina.out file? Is it huge numbers of
> exceptions of the type described above?
Still haven't been able to see what's in it (the terminal-based tools
won't handle stream files that big), but when this happened before, it
wasn't 4 gigabytes; it was 6 HUNDRED gigabytes.
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Re: We have a problem involving weird error messages in our Tomcat
context, and catalina.out growing to enormous size.
Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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James,
On 6/22/15 2:54 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> We have two weird things going on at the same customer
> installation.
>
> First, we have a situation in which catalina.out is inexplicibly
> growing to enormous size (4558505886 bytes) in a very short time
> (under a week), and growing by 4k in under a minute. And yet the
> catalina.[date] files are all of very reasonable size.
>
> Second, we've been finding a lot of "There is no process to read
> data written to a pipe." exceptions. They're apparently being
> thrown by our own code, but we haven't been able to determine why,
> and while a Google search on that exact phrase turns up hundreds of
> references specific to aix, it doesn't turn up any specific to
> OS/400 (or whatever IBM is calling it this week). Don't know if
> there's any connection between that and the enormous catalina.out.
Well... what's in the catalina.out file? Is it huge numbers of
exceptions of the type described above?
> Tomcat version is 7.0.47, running on an AS/400.
You might be able to get some mileage out of using
swallowOutput="true" on your <Context>. Depending upon the nature of
the output being logged, that may direct the tons-of-error-logging to
the daily log files, which are easier to manage (compress, delete, etc.)
.
- -chris
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