Re: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread francis picabia
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Peter Balogh wrote: > Hi, > > Is that a debian based system? Isn't it a leap second related issue? > Do you have ntp installed? Did you restart the machine since saturday? > > Just my ideas I think you have the solution there. I knew about the leap second but had

Re: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread francis picabia
Here is a new scenario: firewall is blocking 8080 and apache is off. tomcat 7.0.28 from tarball install is running as user tomcat. Load is about 6. It never comes down after some 5 minutes or so. Again, this is simply the tarball install, with no configuration. Here is the top of top: top - 1

Re: High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread francis picabia
Here is another thing which is odd... I stop tomcat 5.0. I install the tomcat6 from Debian and allow it to start with the default "It works" page. The tomcat load is still unusual: top - 14:07:12 up 52 days, 6:36, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 154 total, 3 running, 151 sle

High load from tomcat, no users, no errors

2012-07-06 Thread francis picabia
Hello, I have two servers with Debian 6 and an older tomcat 5.0.30 Starting only recently, each has taken a sudden leap in load. There is no traffic hitting it, as I can confirm using lsof. One server had a load of nearly 0 and at midnight jumped to 10 and stayed that way until the next day. Not