Just a late note to tell you all that this is fixed, and the trouble was
as you suggested: my ftp.connect method was hanging. Once I figured
out what timeouts to set for it, I let it go, and it went several days
just like it has before, until I was perusing my logs tonight and found
a Timeout Exception logged and trapped appropriately, and it then
returned and continued along its merry way, firing the timer again at
the next correct interval, importing files properly the next time they
showed.

So everything looks great now. Thanks for the suggestions; it would
have taken me a long time to figure that one out on my own!

D


Ronald Klop wrote:
> Could it be the Timer is waiting for a previous action to finish?
> Maybe the FTP connect 'hangs'.
>
> Ronald.
>
>
>
> On Fri Jun 29 16:41:13 CEST 2007 Tomcat Users List
> <users@(protected):
>> I have an app running in Tomcat 5.5.12, with jre 1.5.0_12 (explicitly
>> specified in the service configuration), on windows 2000 server.
>>
>> I have one class that is initialized by a servletContextListener, in
>> the contextInitialized event. This class uses java.util.Timer and
>> java.util.TimerTask to check every few minutes for new files on an
>> ftp site, and if it finds any, it downloads and processes them. This
>> all works fine for anywhere from 2 or 3 days to a week or so, then
>> the timer just stops firing, and indicated by a sudden lack of
>> entries in the log file (I log every time the timer fires to help
>> track down this problem).
>>
>> Over the last couple of weeks, I've found some things that can cause
>> this, but I believe I've fixed them, but my timer still stops firing
>> after a few days. The things I've already fixed were updating the jre
>> to 1.5.12, because of problems with automatic time correction on the
>> server, and I found that unhandled exceptions in the timer task can
>> also cause this, so early last week I modified my code to trap all
>> exceptions before they can trickle up to the timer, and log them, and
>> I don't see any exceptions being logged.
>>
>> It doesn't seem to be related to the number of executions, because
>> the latest time it stopped on me, it had fired around 1200 times, and
>> the time before that was around 4500 times. It can also be any time
>> of day, and sometimes the server is busy and other times it hasn't
>> had a connection for several hours.
>>
>> Any other suggestions as to what I should look for to find this?
>> Thanks!
>> D
>>
>>
>>
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