I was running tomcat7 production server for several days, and then suddenly
it was **unreachable** by the http port. Strangely though, the background
processes **were still running** as can be seen by the logs.
So i tried to stop tomcat7 using `invoke-rc.d tomcat7 stop` from my *debian
wheezy* box. But still the process is still there, with the <defunct> flag.
I tried `kill -9 <pid>` and `killall -9 java`, but still the process is
there - still occupying the port, causing me cannot start a new tomcat with
the port is already used error.
I had to reboot. And everything is normal from there.
But i'm curious of what might cause this kind of situation ? There's no big
loads whatsoever. Only some background processes running, scraping. I can
see nothing suspicious from the logs.
What should i do if this happens again to get to the **real cause** and fix
it ?
Here's my connector settings :
<Connector port="8080" address="127.0.0.1"
maxParameterCount="500"
maxPostSize="250000"
scheme="http"
secure="false"
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol"
connectionTimeout="20000"
disableUploadTimeout="false"
connectionUploadTimeout="300000"
maxThreads="500"
processorCache="500"
URIEncoding="UTF-8"
/>
My tomcat version : **7.0.28-4+deb7u1**
My VM args :
> JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true
> -Dspring.profiles.active="background,production" -XX:-UseSplitVerifier
-javaagent:/var/lib/tomcat7/spring-instrument-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar -server
-Xms4G -Xmx4G -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -XX:+DisableExplicitGC
-XX:-HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/log/tomcat7/dump
-XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseTLAB
-XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing
-XX:CMSIncrementalDutyCycleMin=0 -XX:CMSIncrementalDutyCycle=10
-XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=0 -XX:SurvivorRatio=256
-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=60 -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true"
jdk version : **7u60**
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