I have a web application using Tomacat 5.0.28.
In catalina.bat for java i've given -Xxms256m -Xxmx512m.
When im running the application.. my java.exe is going upto 202mb.. thread count (in windows manager) is upto 700-800 (in 10 minutes).
and then my server goes slow and no request is accepted. My tomcat threadpool size is 300.
i dont know where to look for solution. pls give hints
IMHO, you should investigate this issue instead of just reducing thread pool size to 32. Tomcat will create the additional thread if it does not find any free thread in pool. In your case it looks that threads are not getting freed quickly to handle new request. It could be because of number of reasons but some of them are:
1. Network congestion- Threads are trying hard to push the data so are not getting freed quickly
2. Application logic-Threads are spending considerable time in your application, so are not getting freed to handle new request.
Apart from above web-server might be getting the requests more that what it can handle, so availability of resources could be an issue. Web-Server's log can help you to further identify the actual reason.
Gurmit
