Yep, 5.0.28, sorry:)

Jamey
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:48 PM
To: Tomcat Developers List
Subject: Re: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in ResourceCache.java

if you can create a test case, great, if not, a patch would be nice with
your bug submission.
I believe you meant version 5.0.28, not 4.xx.x.

Filip

James Courtney wrote:
> Thanks Filip,
>   I believe the threads causing the condition are the connector 
> threads as we have 200 or so of them configured for handling requests 
> of which most are for static content which apparently comes from the 
> ResourceCache via ProxyDirContext and Mapper.  We do not "own" these 
> threads as they are created and managed by the connector for handling 
> requests.  The exception is occuring when looking up a static piece of

> content.  ProxyDirContext manages the ResourceCache and synchonizes on

> it whenever it modifies it using allocate and load and also unload.  
> It does not synchronize on it when it uses the lookup method which has

> the problem I mentioned below.  An alternative solution would be for 
> ProxyDirContext to synchronized on the cache when performing the 
> lookup but that might introduce more overhead than the read-copy 
> method I suggested initially.
>
> I will attempt to file a bug on this and suggest a test case.  We're 
> seeing this in our environment because we have a static content base 
> of
> 30+ MB consisting of 8000-10000 static files all being accessed at
> regular intervals by 8000+ clients.  This causes a lot of "churn" in 
> the ResourceCache I suspect and aggrivates the exception we see.  One 
> might be able to reproduce this by explicitly reducing the max size of

> the cache on the Context and using a smaller number of files whose 
> total size still far exceeds the cache maximum size set.  A sufficient

> number of clients would still be required to trigger the race 
> condition.  In short it's probably a PITA to reproduce but I'll
suggest what I can.
>
> How explicit a configuration do you guys need from me for a test case?
> I'll try and reproduce it on vanilla Tomcat 4.0.28 (non-embedded) as 
> I'd think that'd be just as possible to do and more generally 
> relevant.  If I can then I'll try and do it using as simple/minimal a 
> config as possible but we'll see:)
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Jamey
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:21 PM
> To: Tomcat Developers List
> Subject: Re: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in ResourceCache.java
>
> if you are running it embedded, what threads are causing the race 
> condition, if it is one of your threads, you can avoid it.
> otherwise, if you have a test case for us, submit it to bugzilla, and 
> we will be happy to consider it for the next 5.0.x release
>
> Filip
>
> James Courtney wrote:
>   
>> I'm pretty regularly seeing the following error in my embedded Tomcat
>> (5.0.28) connector.  It appears to occur as a result of one thread 
>> entering the ResourceCache.lookup(String name) method and getting the

>> index of an element in the cache using the find method.  Before this 
>> thread can access the element at that index the cache array is 
>> modified by a second thread and the index is now outside the bounds 
>> of
>>     
> the array.
>   
>> A basic race condition.  I've noticed that I can configure my Context
>> (StandardContext) to increase the max cache size which seems to help 
>> quite a bit with this problem.  Is this the recommended solution or 
>> should a code change also be considered to alleviate this problem?  I

>> would suggest that the ResourceCache.lookup method should create a 
>> reference to the current cache which it should use rather than 
>> working
>>     
>
>   
>> on the global cache reference which may change.  Something like this:
>>
>> /* current code, ResourceCache.java line 286 */ CacheEntry cacheEntry

>> = null; ...
>> int pos = find(cache, name);
>> /* ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException occurs when backing array modified 
>> between these lines */ if ((pos != -1) &&
>> (name.equals(cache[pos].name))) {
>>     cacheEntry = cache[pos];
>> }
>>
>> /* new code */
>> CacheEntry cacheEntry = null;
>> CacheEntry[] currentCache = cache;
>> ...
>> int pos = find(currentCache, name);
>> if ((pos != -1) && (name.equals(currentCache[pos].name))) {
>>     cacheEntry = currentCache[pos];
>> }
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>>
>> James Courtney
>>
>>
>>
>> ******************************
>> ** The original stack trace **
>> ******************************
>>
>> 2005-11-28 15:09:01: ERROR An exception or error occurred in the 
>> container during the request processing
>> java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 4868
>>         at
>>
>>     
> org.apache.naming.resources.ResourceCache.lookup(ResourceCache.java:28
> 8)
>   
>>         at
>>
>>     
>
org.apache.naming.resources.ProxyDirContext.cacheLookup(ProxyDirContext.
>   
>> java:1393)
>>         at
>>
>>     
>
org.apache.naming.resources.ProxyDirContext.lookup(ProxyDirContext.java:
>   
>> 279)
>>         at
>> org.apache.tomcat.util.http.mapper.Mapper.internalMapWrapper(Mapper.j
>> a
>> va
>> :775)
>>         at
>>
org.apache.tomcat.util.http.mapper.Mapper.internalMap(Mapper.java:621)
>>         at
>> org.apache.tomcat.util.http.mapper.Mapper.map(Mapper.java:511)
>>         at
>> org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.postParseRequest(CoyoteAdapte
>> r
>> .j
>> ava:279)
>>         at
>>
>>     
> org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:158
> )
>   
>>         at
>>
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:
>> 79
>> 9)
>>         at
>> org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.proce
>> s
>> sC
>> onnection(Http11Protocol.java:705)
>>         at
>>
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:
>> 57
>> 7)
>>         at
>> org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadP
>> o
>> ol
>> .java:683)
>>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
>>
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