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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Renato Weiner <re...@yahoo.com> on 2001/07/02 15:02:38 UTC

Killing endless loop servlet - howto ? killing JVM or unload class ?

Hi all, 
I'm rolling out a successful Tomcat instalation in a shared environment ( it's a great software ! ). But I have a concern. 
I created a servlet that loops forever ( a very stupid one, by the way ). When I executed it, it allocates a Tomcat thread and it just runs forever. If I try to kill it after it consumed, let's say, 30 seconds of processing, it ended up killing the whole JVM. 
First, I don't know if it's killing a thread is the right approach. Should I do that, without shutdown Tomcat ? Is there a way to set a 'time-out' for a Servlet ? What I can doin this situation ? Is there an Interceptor that can unload this class somehow ? 
Thanks in advance 
Renato - Brazil 
P.S. I'm running Linux, kernel 2.4.3, Tomcat 3.2.2



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