We are running a tomcat server 5.5.12 under Fedora Core 3 with Java 1.5..0update 5 and we have enabled CGI. We noticed that the number of file descriptors over time was increasing to the point where the VM runs out of file descriptors. We think we have found a file descriptor leak in the CGI code because when we execute the following script, the file descriptors held by the Java VM increases by 1.
#!/bin/sh echo "Content-type: text/html" echo echo "<html>" echo "<body>" date echo "</body>" echo "</html>" If we run this script in a loop, eventually tomcat runs out of file descriptors and CGI starts returning HTTP 500 errors. After some more time, it looks like the compactor runs and cleans something up. The number of file descriptors drops back down to an acceptable level. Has anyone else seen similar problems? Does anyone have a fix? Does anyone know where I can find the JAVA code that handle the CGI? I will need to fix this one way or the other. Bruce
