Tomcat6 memory leak issues

[benje101]

Dear All,

I've recently been re-experimenting with running Subsonic on an ARMv5 Sheevaplug. It was seeming to run nice and stably for a couple weeks, serving a 1TB library
--> via subsonic.war under Tomcat6.0.35 and Oracle(Embedded, Headless, ARMv5) JVM 1.7.0_06-b24

but recently I've been having memory leaks, and/or problems restarting Subsonic after a couple of network and power fails that aren't connected but did require a few unscheduled restarts -of both Tomcat and the Sheevaplug


If I click on "Find Leaks" on the Tomcat Manager webpage, I get message like this:

The following web applications were stopped (reloaded, undeployed), but their
classes from previous runs are still loaded in memory, thus causing a memory
leak (use a profiler to confirm):
/subsonic
/subsonic
/subsonic
/subsonic

...and deleting directory/reinstalling isn't the way round this - can get that to work, but it's not a longer term fix! ; any clues please....??

Apparently Tomcat7 is better at removing these old classes from previous runs, but Subsonic apparently isn't working under Tomcat7
...so any work arounds or solutions welcome --I'm sure it's probably a case of adding the right lines to the right configuration file(s), but I've haven't googled a successful nugget of information on this yet.

KR,
Ben

p.s. OS is Debian Squeeze and Kernel is 2.6.32-5-kirkwood

[hakko]

Does Madsonic/Supersonic/any other mod run on Tomcat 7?

I keep announcing the mod I maintain, MusicCabinet, which runs on Tomcat 7 / Jetty 8. But it's much more specialized and heading away from the original Subsonic code base, as it only strives to create a more advanced music streaming server. So I guess it would be good if other mod maintainers took on supporting Tomcat 7 too. Or even Sindre.

.. anyone?

[benje101]

thanks hakko, i might try one of those derivatives or yours eventually (i'm not too interested in the video side anyways)

but for now, I'd quite like to stabilise my subsonic.war/tomcat6 "classes from previous runs still loaded" issues,
if anyone has any clues on that ???

cheers,
Ben


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P.S. RE MusicCabinet though, will 'subsonic apps' (e.g. Sindre's Android one) still work with MusicCabinet as the alternative server ?

[hakko]

Just answering the PS question: the Android app will work with MusicCabinet, and the extended features (view related artists / play top tracks for an artist / browse artists by genre / generate playlists based on genre or an artist) are included too, without updating the app itself.